So, I forgot to tell you in my last post that the trek we did was 35km over 2.5 days. Oh, and did I mention how hard it was and how high we went?!! Anyway, on Monday morning we got up at sparrow's fart (hot running water this time!) and headed down to the railway station in Ollantaytambo. We had to take a 40 minute bus ride to another station as the railway track had been destroyed/washed away during the February floods. It was a bit of a hairy ride as the roa...

So, here it was, the day we had all been dreading and very excited about simultaneously - trek time! We had been given some duffel bags to carry our stuff in and the aim was for them to be no heavier than 5kg - hard when you are taking sleeping bag, several inners, mats, change of clothes etc! We were picked up fairly early on 29th and the first stop was a ruin site called Saqsaywaman (pronounced sexy woman!) which means 'Satisfied Falcon'. It was damaged quite a...

Enroute to Cusco we stopped off at the Sillustani ruins - these are huge funerary 'chullpas' (basically funeral towers where they burn their dead!) that are made of massive blocks of stone of up to 12m high and wide. We then stopped for lunch at a one-horse town where we paid about 1 pound for a set menu of vegetable soup (that had chicken's feet and other random bits of chicken in it!) and then vegetable stew which was actually rice with one potato and a lump ...

On Monday we set off to Puno. I was in the front seat (yay!) so got a great bird's eye view of everything. We got to the Peruvian border where once again we had some severe muppetry happening. The 2 Americans had left their immigration forms from Bolivia in their big backpacks (which were buried somewhere in the depths of the truck under everyone else's bags). When I asked them why they hadn't left them in their passports they said that nobody had told them to do...