OK we're not in Puno, but this app won't recognise Lake Titicaca or any of the islands on it. So we'd booked ourselves on the bog standard two day tour on Lake Titicaca, at 3,812m the world's highest navigable lake (whatever that means). The warning bells should have rung the night before in the tourist-ridden Puno, but hey. First stop was the infamous floating islands of Uros. In years gone by some of the quick witted locals left the mainland to escape the inv...

Today was spent on a very comfortable bus travelling to Puno, on the shores of Lake Titicaca. As ever, the landscapes we passed through were amazing. Peru truly is a stunning country. We got to Puno late afternoon to find a pretty ugly town jam packed full of tourists. Delightful. However we quickly booked a 2 day Lake Titicaca tour for a bargain price, tucked into an alpaca steak dinner, and bedded down for the night. Erm, that's about it.

Colca Canyon is the world's deepest canyon, more than twice the depth of the Grand Canyon. However it looks more like a valley as the sides aren't as steep and so doesn't have quite the same wow factor. But it is pretty spectacular nonetheless. The hostel pick up was at 3:30am followed by a 2 hour minibus ride through the spectacular high altitude plains outside Arequipa to the town of Chivay for breakfast. Of course we slept most of the way. After breakfast we...

Peeking through the curtains as the bus approached Arequipa, we appeared to be in Mos Eisley. Very dry and arid looking, but unfortunately no spaceships or aliens to be spied. We arrived in Arequipa at around 6am on Sunday morning, reasonably refreshed after a comfortable night on the bus. Our hostel room wasn't ready and so we wandered into yet another UNESCO World Heritage Site. The colonial centre was stunning first thing in the morning, few people around an...

Maybe we were still high on adrenalin from the Inca Trail, maybe we were still light headed from the altitude, but on returning to Cusco we shunned resting and booked a day white water rafting and zip lining. With yet another stupidly early start we joined the tour group and headed to a site on the Urubamba river a couple of hours outside Cusco. To date our experience of white water rafting was limited to a day in Pennsylvania where the water was so calm our raf...