So after swiftly leaving Valparaiso we made our way to Santiago as early as possible in the hope that we could change our flights to the next day, unfortunately we weren’t allowed and had to stay in Santiago for 2 nights and catch the plane to Sydney on the Sunday evening. The day we arrived it was raining pretty much non-stop so again there wasn’t really much to do! The hostel was actually one of the best ones we had stayed in so was easy to chill out there ...

We arrived in Arica a little worse for wear following our torrid trip from Cusco but it was awesome to see Jason. When we got to the hostel we found them there waiting with the hostel manager Roberto and it looked like they had just arrived but apparently he had kept them there for 45mins ranting when all they wanted to do was get into there room and settle in a bit. This guy Roberto was very eccentric (thats probably the politest way to describe him!) and very i...

So with an absolutely amazing sleep under our belts for the first time in 4 days following the Inca Trail we thought we´d treat ourselves so had an awesome breakfast at Jacks and a full body massage! The massage place was all a little seedy but you cant complain for 4 quid really! As I said before we went on the Inca Trail we planned to do the cultural side of Cusco on our return but this didn´t really materialise!! We went out on the Tuesday night with some g...

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We arrive to the meeting point after a early start and the porters start dividing up all the camping equipment and loading it on to their backs. The amount of stuff they carry is unbealivable (about 20kg) and they run ahead of the group to set up the camp. We got ourselves together, it was really warm not great hiking weather so we stripped off our numerous warm layers and got our sticks together for the walk ahead. Rory was the hero of the trip though, as he ca...