Lima 5th September – 8th September 2006  What dedicated and professional travelers we have become, I mean, who else would get to Cusco airport 3 hours in advance of their internal flight to Lima?   Well quite frankly not a lot of people really as we were practically the only ones in the airport at 8.30am on a Tuesday morning. All the other sensible people didn’t show up until around 9.30am and they probably already knew that the flight had b...

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...

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...