25th September For breakfast we helped make fried bread which was delicious then we helped with the daily choirs. We took the sheep from their pen to a patch of grass for grazing and tethered them there. Then collected water from the lake and watered the plants and vegetables in the green house, prepared the peapods for lunch and then dug a 10meter long trench in the garden for a water system to be fitted the next day. At 10 we walked up to the school and our...

24th September Puno Early in the morning we took tuk tucks from our hotel to the port where we took a boat on Lake Titicaca to see the floating islands. We spent an hour on a floating island, home to 5 families, where they explained how the floating islands originated in the 1640's when the spaniards invaded. The local people were hiding in the reeves from the Spanish and realised if they layered the reeves they would float. They also dressed us in their traditi...

23rd September 7hour bus to Puno from Cuzco! We walked around the town, had some dinner, bought food for our families at the local market and then watched the locals parade in the main square celebrating the 'festival of young people'.

22nd September After completing our 24hour challenge we had a good lie in and then went to 'Jacks' for brunch! Lazy afternoon sitting in the lobby and market shopping. In the evening we went to a fancy boutique hotel and restaurant for dinner called Fallen Angle which was owned by a gay man who employed only gay waiters to encourage the acceptance of homosexuals in Cuzco - the food was really good! They showed us two suits which were very creative and abstract ...

22nd September Breakfast at 4:30am but no coffee in bed this time! Although the first bus was at 5:30 and we were there before, we still had to cue until 6 for a bus to take us to Machu Picchu. Although I'd been to the museum in Cusco and knew it was a large city, I was still blown away by the size of it. At first it was quite fogy but this meant it was cool for our 2hour guide by Sergio. Then the sun came out and the site was FILLED with people so spent a lot ...