Monday morning was spent getting our stuff together for the journey to Mancora. We packed up our stuff into our bags and walked along to one of the casinos nearby where we hitched a taxi to the Cruz Del Sur bus station. Catching the bus was pretty straightforward and we had again booked into VIP seating so settled back for the 17 and a half hour journey to Mancora. In all fairness, the journey was pretty good and even I managed to get quite a bit of sleep. We...

On Friday, we were to travel to Lima for a few days before we headed north to Mancora. The bus journey to Lima was to be 21 hours which doesn't particularly fill me with any excitement although I'm sure Beth's eyes light up at a long bus journey as this is the perfect opportunity for a lengthy sleeping session. We weren't leaving until 2 so we packed up all of our stuff, got some supplies for the journey and then checked out of our room. After getting to the d...

Our final day in Cusco, was one spent relaxing and sorting ahead of our journey to Lima. As you can imagine, there was some laundry to be done after four days on the Inca Trail so we paid for that to be done, grabbed some lunch and headed back to the hostel to upload photos and speak to family and friends. After picking up our amazing smelling washing, we got ready and were meeting up with the majority of our group from the Inca trail for a few celebratory drin...

Much to our absolute delight, the start for the final trek to Machu Picchu was 3.30am!!! We were awoken by our porters with a cup of tea before we hurriedly had to pack up our things to make our way down to the control to gain access to the final trail. Nobody is allowed through the control until 5.30am when it is light so we had to stand around for an hour and a half in the complete darkness while the rain pounded down on our shelter above us. Eventually we we...

So after getting lucky with the weather on the first two days, today was the day when the weather fought back!! It was another early start with a 5.30am wake up call by the porters with coca tea the incentive for getting out of our sleeping bags. We sorted our things out and ate our breakfast whilst the cloud enveloped the campsite. This meant it was quite cool for walking which was nice whilst the rain was still holding off. We hiked for about an hour and a ...