Arriving in Puno at 7pm, we knew we were leaving the next day so ummed and aahed about staying right by the bus station. Put off by the names though ´sweet love motel´etc, we thought we´d be better off in the centre. We were probablybut only just, a shabby little hotel that offered us two single beds, and a freezing nights sleep. Sufficient for us though and after beating Steve at chess, again, we had an early night, ready for our trip to the floating islands ...

We clearly can´t keep up with the youngsters anymore. After our long day visiting Machu Picchu, we took the late train to Ollytaytambo, planning to then get a 2 hour bus to Cusco, arriving at 2am. On arriving at Olly though, we took one look at each other´s bleary faces and realised the only place we were going was to the nearest bed we could find. Fortunately, catering for the flaky traveller was the spot we´d had lunch in the day before so we managed to get ...

We left Arequipa on the 8pm bus to Cusco which got us there, after a fairly decent nights sleep at 6am, after a little bit of faffing around we jumped on a collectivo to Ollantaytambo from where we were able to get the train to Machu Picchu Pueblo (also known as Aquas Calientes) where we arrived at about 2.30pm. We spent the next couple of hours finding a hostel and preparing for our trip to the ruins of Machu Picchu the following morning. We had to decide wheth...

First of all we have to say a massive thank you to everyone who donated some money to the orphanage, we were able to give them over 1,000 GBP which is a truly huge amount of money. We are very lucky to know such generous people and it will make a huge difference to the children. Today was our last day and we were both really sad to leave. Although we have only been working there for 5 days we have both become really attched to the babies and older children who a...

We have been in Arequipa, about 700 miles south of Lima, for about 5 weeks. Throughout our trip we have been looking for an opportunity to volunteer somewhere and we settled here as we found an incredible orphanage to work in. We have been working about 6 hours a day, looking after the 17 kids and babies, who are between 5 months and 8 years old. The children are there for various reasons; they have no parents, they were abandoned, they were taken from their pare...