¡Hola a todos! Well, here we are again! I am currently sat in a wonderful little café here in the middle of Arequipa, a café with the best cake I have tasted in a very long time (woe to my waistline!) and, better still, free internet access upstairs! So, I thought it prudent to make inroads into my backlog of travel stories while I have such a glorious opportunity – I should no doubt add that I find myself at a loose end in any case, what with the Peruvians...

¡Hola a todos! Wow, what a week I have enjoyed since last I blogged! I am writing this entry from a computer in a wonderfully relaxed café on a bustling street in the middle of Arequipa, Peru’s second city, located in the south-west of the country and the wealthiest centre in all of Peru: it is certainly an interesting contrast to Bolivia! Speaking of which… As many of you might have perceived from my previous post, Bolivia was not my finest of experience...

¡Hola a todos! A word of warning everyone: I have uploaded no less than three blogs today (sorry!). Needless to say, I am sure you can be forgiven for reading them in multiple sittings (after all, that was the method used in their writing). My friends and I awoke to a cold morning in San Pedro, where we said some quick yet heart-felt goodbyes to the rest of our Pachamama group before embarking upon a minibus destined for the border between Chile and Bolivia. T...