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...