Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu 1st September - 4th September 2006 We are up early for the bus to Pisac and its one last great breakfast before we head off into the Sacred valley, about 32km from Cusco. Why is it called the Sacred valley you may ask? Well apparently the valley itself is in the shape of a snake which was a sacred animal to the Inca people. Alrightly then. The bus takes an hour and it is quite a windy journey through the mountains and the...

Puno & Cusco 28th August - 31st August 2006 We are up pretty early to get the bus back to Puno, Peru and catch a taxi at 7.30am to the bus station. Typical South America efficiency sees us waiting for the bus company to sort out tickets to Puno with the travel agency whom we booked the tickets through. For some reason they thought that we should have been on the bus to Puno yesterday?? All is eventually sorted and we get the last 2 seats at the...

La Paz, Bolivia 24th August - 27th August 2006 It's another early start as we are up and on the bus to Bolivia for 7am. We have been on many a bus journey on our travels but this one just seemed to go on and on forever. First of all we were treated to what can only be described as childish activities by the bus drivers attendants (we were sat rght at the front of the bus) who were busy tickling each other as we hurtle around corners. There is also no oppor...

Puno & Lake Titicaca 22nd August - 23rd August 2006 We arrive in the midle sized town of Puno after a 6 and 1/2 hour journey, it actually was only supposed to take 5hrs only). Not only that, to top it all off we had booked onto the "Royal class" (champagne backpackers after all let us remind you) bus at a tourist agency only to find that when we arrive at the bus station it's a shabby looking "business class". A queer thing about the bus tickets (in ...

Arequipa & Colca Canyon 17th August - 21st August 2006 We are rather rudely awoken at 7.15am to be informed that a double room has become available and we have to change rooms inside 45 minutes otherwise it will be lost. Great, just what we need after a long bus journey. We swap rooms and have breakfast which is a variation on a well known theme. After all, a continental breakfast is a couple of bread rolls and jam right? We sort ourselves out and h...