A New 7th Wonder of the World? Sacred Valley We started out tour to Machu Picchu by going through some of the ruins in the Sacred Valley that we could have visited on foot if we were not too lazy to do the Inca Trail. We were to be picked up from our hotel between 8:30 and 8:45 for the bus at 9:00am. By 5 to 9 no-one had arrived so angrily we walked down to the office in a hurry. We were then walked to the bus by the tour agency people who tried to ask why we...

Cusco I - Waiting for the WOW 1. Bus Cama We left our hotel and arrived at the bus station to catch our bus to Cusco. We boarded the bus, and Lisa found her seat was occupied by a child. The mother moved the child out of her seat, and then replaced it so it half sat on Lisa's knee for the entire journey. A hideous meal of chicken and rice in polystyrene boxes was brought around for EVERYONE to enjoy. Lisa refused hers point blank. Charlie attempted a l...

Nasca  We took the cheapest bus we could from Ica to Nasca, which was only a 3.5 hour journey. A man on the bus initiated a conversation with us and asked us if we had a hotel. We had been through these protracted conversations before and just said we had a reservation. He asked which hotel so we told him the one we were thinking of going to. To our surprise and relief he worked for that hotel and gave us some information. We decided to go there and another ...

Desert Adventures with 18-30 1. The journey We took a collectivo with our giant rucksacks to Pisco and then got tickets for the bus and got a taxi to the main road. There we waited for a bus but the first one was full and they wouldn’t let us on so we got the second one and sat with a friendly chatty man. He helped us and gave us his email when we got to Ica. Of course as soon as we got to Huacachina it went in the bin. We got a taxi to Huacachina...

Bird Watching and Other Near Death Experiences We stepped off the bus straight onto the Pan American highway, the main road running through a desolate desert landscape. We had originally planned to stay at Pisco and just visit Paracas for the day, in order to to the boat trip. We had to get a taxi from the highway to the little town of Pisco and on the way the taxi driver kept trying to persuade us to go the Paracas and just stay there. We kept saying no, as...