Since leaving my family, Ian and I have moved in with a local couple on the outskirts of cuzco. The city is much different out here because it is a normal middle class residential area, but still very interesting because I feel a lot more like I am living here rather than just visiting. The Spanish classes are also going very well... I have caught on very quickly but keep getting rebuked for mixing my Spanish with my Portuguese! My brother, Chris, has also decide...

Awwwe! Cuzco, the famous Inca Capitol. The city is gorgeous set in the Andes Mountains with mostlly very traditional Spanish style architecture with portruding wooden balconies, plaster, narrow streets and Spanish tiled rooves. I feel a lot like Toledo, Spain was picked up and dropped in the middle of the mountains. There are only two seasons here, the dry season and the rainy season, which does not bode well for our Inca trail hike next week. The temperature i...

'Lima is a city of many faces' said our guide Cesar, which could have not been more true. The up's and down's of both the city and the country are reflected through the architecture and the different neighborhoods throughout Lima. In certain places there are big old homes from the turn of the century, and then not far from those are the smaller, cheaper homes from the economic downturns of the city. Anyway, Peru now is on a new rise and people seem more optimisti...