Day 16: 16/7/12 Today was our first day off in 16 days, so we ha a very relaxing day! We stayed in bed for a while and enjoyed watching everyone else in the room pack up their stuff and head off early! Today was the day for contacting people so vibered Shell, Alva and Cliona in the morning! Then we headed off for breakfast an came across another parade with people in local costumes dancing around- was very entertaining. The dancing is a lot of jumping in weird...

Day 15: 15/07/12 Two weeks done!! Today was Macchu Pichu. It was one of the best and the worst days ever- before ye start worrying both myself and Muireann are absolutely fine- not a bother on us. We were collected from the hotel at 5am- we had to drive an hour and a half to the train station in Ollantaytamo and then spend an hour and a half on a train getting to Agua Calientes. Then there was a tour guide waiting for us- we had our own personal tour guide for ...

Day 14: 14/7/12. It's a long one!! Had a tour of the sacred valley around cusco today. We passed lots of houses with bulls on top if them again- apparently they are to being fertility, love and happiness. Some of them have crosses aswell to show they ate catholic. We found out why some houses aren't finished around puno- they dont want to pay the taxes! In Cusco though they are mostly finished. The bus driver was a bit crazy- they all overtake round corners and...

Day 13: 13/7/12 Got the bus to Cusco which left at 7am. These people really don't know how to sleep in! There are little stalls of food on the streets and lots of people seem I eat their breakfast there- always groups of people around in any town we've been in. No breakast rolls in the stalls though- fruit, juices, sandwiches, eggs. The countryside around puno is different to that in Arequipa and colca. Still lots of hills, but there isn't much stone. There are...