I've been in Cusco for the past 10 days and I'm loving it! It's such a beautiful city with particularly welcoming people, even though it's the most touristy place I've seen in Peru. The day after I arrived I started an intensive Spanish course: 4 hours a day one-to-one... thank God it works, otherwise I would have been left with Lourdes as the only other option :-) I already feel much more confident with working in South America. The school is very cool too. It...

After 30 hours in 4 different planes and a total of 31 hours waiting in 4 different airports I finally made it to Peru! I arrived in Lima a week ago and ran away as soon as I could (really not a nice city) towards the South. What I really wanted to do was to catch a flight (yes I know, I´m addicted now) to Iquitos, which is in the North where the real, wild Amazon is supposed to be. Unfortunately, the flight was ridiculously expensive, so I opted for the South...