Travelling over a mountain ridge that took us to our highest altitude at 4300ms, we arrived in the Colca Canyon region close to sunset. This provided us with a spectacular display of red and orange light dancing across the rugged mountain tops. Early the next morning we travelled through to the Colca canyon to an area called Condo de Cruz. Here we had the opportunity to explore the canyon walls and by chance see a couple of Condor's take flight using the thermal...

We have spent a month travelling around Peru so to make for easier reading I have decided to split the Peru blog in two; everything up to and including the Inca Trail and then everything after. Puno a small town nestled on the shore shore of lake Titikaka was our first stop off over the border. Lake Titikaka is the highest lake of its size in the world, which sits around 3600ms and is so large it is shared by both Bolivia and Peru. We arrived in time for 'Puno w...