I found Lima was like most big cities: big, busy, polluted and not overly inviting. Butw we stayed in a nice part of town called Barranco, which is an older part of town on the coast where poets and artists took up residence in yester year. I finally found some decent street art but very little in amongst the copious amounts of scribble. But compared to pretty much everything we´d seen since Valparaiso, in Chile, it was pretty good.We had one of our bigger nigh...

After our time with the Incan decendants it was time to head towards the coast, but first we were off to see the Colca Canyon. We flew from Quito to Arequipa where we met up with a local guide. We were based in a small, seemingly uninhabited town called Coporaque made of narrow cobblestone streets, closed in by adobe structures crumbling with character. I hesitate calling them houses because I hope people didn´t have to live in them during the colder months of t...

We began our excursion of Lake Titicaca from the Peruvian city of Puno. The main highlight of Puno was the peddle powerd taxi ride from our hotel to the small boat that awaited to take us to the small island community of Taquile Island. Home of 2000 people who live a simple exsistance tending to their crops, weaving and knitting beautiful textiles from the wool of the inhabiting sheep and alpacas. Nowadays they tend to the tourist trade by maintaining their beaut...

With high hopes for Cuzco, described to us as a beautiful city where you can relax and see the many nearby ruins and ornate buildings of the town, we were a little sceptical as we weaved through the all too familiar dirty, poverty ridden streets at the end of our long bus ride. It wasn ´t long after checking into our ¨nice¨ hotel that we were introduced to the city we´d heard about. The main square, like a lot of the other plces we´ve been was indeed beautif...

This blog entry has been a work in progress for a few days. We´re now on day 21 of the tour and have just arrived in Peru. Enjoy... So we´re 19 days into our tour, which finds us in La Paz, Bolivia. The reason the blog entries and emails have been so scarce is because everything has been happening so fast with the tour. Different activities every day or 12 hour bus trips, but most commonly the internet access has been slow and frustrating. I have handed ove...