Before we leave Cuzco for our last Peruvian stop in Puno, one of the WalkOnInnl staff members with good English, warns us about the bus company we are travelling on tomorrow. He tells us that our tickets are only worth about 15 soles if we'd bought them direct from the bus company rather than through an agency (on one of the many streets that branches off the main plaza) and that most of the price is commission that they didn't tell us about up front. He said the...

The following day we head down to the main WalkOnInn building and ask to store our large packs there while we spend the next few days getting to and from Machu Picchu. This isn't a problem, so we throw a clean change of clothes into a plastic bag and lock our packs together in their big luggage lockers. We book a night for when we get back to Cusco and then walk, unburdened by our big packs down to the plaza to get a taxi to the street where buses and taxis leave...

We arrive into Cusco around 7.30am, and my tummy is growling but my snack box has mysteriously disappeared. We get a taxi to our hostel, we're actually staying in the extension of the WalkOnInn, just up the road, and our room is nice enough - double bed, and private bath with electrical shower. I think it's the first one since Ornelia's in Quito! It's 75 soles, so not too bad, but there are no common areas to hang out in, and no internet. Ryan is knackered so w...

Our 11am bus from Ica to Arequipa turns up at 12pm, which in Peru is probably not that bad. The scenery is still the same. Sandy. To the left is sandy and sandy rocky mountains, probably the foothills of the Andes and to the right is sandy with a glimpse of the coast every now and then. The towns don’t change, they’re the same sprawling, dusty, rundown shantytowns full of tuk-tuks and crappy taxis. We see three people crammed onto a scooter, trucks loaded wi...

Okay so I've got a bit behind on the blog front. But we've been busy travelling, seeing, tasting, and bus riding. Back in mid August, we'd arrived into Lima and had a good day there. We were back on the bus the following day, this time south to Ica. At the bus station in Lima we checked our bags in and then worried incessantly that they would go on the wrong bus to Ica, as there are two buses, leaving half an hour apart! But once more, Cruz Del Sur prove they're...