Well it had to happen but I thought it'd be Brazil not Peru where I'd get robbed! I was sitting in an internet cafe and had my coat on the back of the chair when some little s*** nicked it! After convincing helen that I wasn't winding her up, we went in search of a nearby policemen to report it. Amazingly helen suddenly became fluent in Spanish & we found our way (the quickiest we've ever found anything!) to the tourist police station. Who we're as bad ...

So we?re on our own again back in Cusco. Since tuesday there?s been parade after parade in this great little town. We?re here to watch the celebrations on Inti Raymi (the festival of the sun) which concludes this weekend up on a hill called ?sexy woman?(i?m so not making up these names, promise). There seems to be alot of run up to it with floats, street parades, non-stop music and dancing in the main square. We?re thinking that there must be national holidays in...

Macchu Picchu Trek:So like the Galapagos entry where do I begin? Its probably best to take you through the events of each day of the tour, so hope your sitting comfortablely this is gonna be a mammoth entry! Here goes:The day before the trek:After a night in Cusco at our hotel, us and the rest of the group left the town via bus heading for GAP?s community project (a business they contribute to were the wives of the porters make and sell alpaca goods). Several pho...

Hurrah! We're in Cuzco getting ready to leave for our mamouth task of trekking up Macchu Picchu on thursady. However, we leave Cuzco and head by bus to the Sacred Valley tomorrow (more shopping opportunities, yay!) where we're staying overnight before we reach KM82 (the start of the Inca trail to MP). We met the rest of our group yesterday in Lima, which consists again of some ozzies, americans, swedes & spanish. There are ten of us altogether, so a bit s...

Greetings from Lima! I must start by saying we actually arrived here friday morning, but it's taken me until now to get on the damn internet at the hostel, to say the other people here hog it is an understatement!!!!!!!!! I'm totally in agreement with Helen about this place, she hated it the moment we stepped off the plane, it took me a few more hours but I feel exactly the same, basically its a s*** hole, polluted to the extreme and not safe after dark. I can...