After the homestay we travelled all day towards Chivay. The journey was long so we opened a bottle of wine at lunchtime and got the good old face paints out! So I painted Shanna as an egg (because she is one!) and she painted me as a smurf...completely blue! nice one, she did make me a hat out of kitchen roll also though! Then we got the rest involved, we had a bee, flower, ladybird, lion, pirate, inca kola bottle and the joker! was good fun but the hotel must ha...

Today we were up bright and early ready for our home stay in a small village called Raqchi. We left Cusco around 8am on our new truck-Cindy! Not as cool as Elle but she did the trick! When we arrived a group of local ladies met us.They were all dressed in traditional clothing and all wearing funny hats! Myself, Nikkie, Dee and Vicky were introduced to an older lady who then led us to her home which was down a long path and up a rocky hill! It was cute though,...

WOW!! Machu Picchu is awesome!! So we woke up early, had a quick breakfast (so tired of bread, jam and scrambled eggs!!) then headed down the road to the train station which would take us from Ollantaytambo to Machu Picchu. The train was fun, you even got a little snack and me and Nikkie drank some Inca Kola yum yum, the bright green/yellow pop is quite scrumptious hehe! After the train it was a bus journey up to the entrance of Machu Picchu. Jonathon too...

Day One: Today was the start of our 4day trek to Machu Picchu. We were all up bright and early, with our duffel bags packed and ready to leave at 7am The first stop was Sacsayhuaman, a massive fortress of the Incas close to Cusco. Today it is in ruins but you can still see the remains of the walled complex.The stones/rocks are huge and nobody knows how the Incas actually managed to cut and move the rocks in order to build it! Our next stop was Pisac, situated i...

So! We was up bright and early for a long truck day and the drive to Cusco. Truck days are normally very chilled, we sleep, play a******* and admire the scenery... Don't get me wrong, today started off that way, but it was Shanna's birthday...so at 10am we cracked open a bottle of red wine, then another and another! We listened to cool tunes, danced a little and got drunk! The journey went quick! We arrived early evening, decided it would be fun to dress in o...