Cusco, Puno and Farewell Peru "We have a saying in the trade ... "If you need to go to the loo, go to Peru"", Maria, Royal Free Travel Clinic Wonderful woman Maria.She stuck us with no less than 11 needles protecting us against the big bad world, but I don't think even she knew how right she was when she delivered us the above delightful information.Still, it's been character-building to say the least and it is, we understand, all part of ...

Inca Trek 1-4 July 2011 This trip had been booked since March and was the only set date in our itinerary, so we had been looking forward to it with a mixture of eagerness, anticipation, nervousness, excitement, trepidation and fear. I'd wanted to do this trek for years and although Katy was keen, I think her excitement was tempered by an unnecessary fear of failure and certainly not helped by her experience in the Colca Canyon 2 weeks previous. The nerves had b...

Colca Canyon 19/20/21 June After having put off the trek for 3 days due to varying degrees of sickness - our trip started at 3am on Sunday 19. That's right, 3.A.M..... We hopped onto the bus (actually that sounds rather too energetic - lets try "dragged our sorry tired arses"...) and crammed in between other travellers in varying states of sleep (deprivation).After collecting 2 more people who managed to squeeze themselves between the rest of us, we s...

There's some funny things about Peru........Like the way each town/city seems to have it's own version of a "taxi" .For example, here in Nasca, every taxi looks like those little toy cars they used to give out in Happy Meals (that probably had Ronald MacDonald or the Hamburglar sticking out the top) that you pulled back and then let whizz across your Mums kitchen floor or off the end of the dinner table to her eternal annoyance.In Arequipa, they all loo...

Buenas dias! (That's "Good day" in Spanish, don't you know!) So its been one week since we set off from our native homeland and as you can see, our Spanish is already exceptional. In fact you could say we're practically locals already. Well, not quite. But at the very least we're very excited Gringos, happily treading the well-trodden tourist trail and still marvelling at the fact that we are actually finally off and away. And so here is our first blo...