Hola chicos! After 8 hours on the bus we arrived in Puno. As it was a Sunday not much was open but I had a walk around the town (not much here really), and had a nice cafe con leche with Sue and Colleen. On Monday morning we had (another) early start as we were going to visit some islands on Lake Titicaca and to stay with a family overnight. The lake is absolutely massive! We were on a boat for about 3 hours before we got off to have a wander around one of the...

Hi! I have had a very busy few days! First I hiked the Inca Trail (or should it be called trial?), then I went to the Amazon basin and stayed in the jungle. Before we started the Inca Trail we had a short tour of the Sacred Valley which was very nice. There are loads of Inca ruins around this area so we got to see alot of them. Then on Sunday morning we started out on the Inca Trial. My group of 11 had about 16 porters (each carrying about 25 kilos), 2 cooks ...

Hola Amigos! The night bus was a bit scary. As we got on we were all videoed - but noone explained why. I guess it was incase of theft, as I have met quite a few people who have tole me stories about people getting stuff stolen whilst they were asleep on night buses. Anyway I attached all my valuables to me, so there was no problem. I was just really tired when we arrived in Arequipa as the journey took about 10 hours! So when we got to the hotel I had a nice s...

Hi! I met up with my group on Fiday night - they are all really nice people (14 in total mainly girls and mostly younger than me and from the UK, apart from two ladies from Melbourne who are in their 40's one of which lives a few streets away from Pauline - small world). Anyway on Saturday morning me and Katy got a cab into the old town of Lima to have a look around. As soon as we got there we spotted the heavily armed guards and 2 tanks! At least we weren't goi...

Hi! I have literally been to the centre of the earth today! I went to the equator line. Me, Vivian and Alice (who I met on my Galapagos trip) caught a local bus for about 40p out to the equator line. This is in comparison to the $32 GAP were going to charge me! Vivian speaks Spanish so that is the only reason I was able to catch the bus, otherwise I wouldn't have a clue! Anyway catching the bus is an experience in itself. There are people who get on trying to ...