I have about 24 hrs here before my return to England, I have decided to walk to my accomodation from the Bus station which looks simple enough on the map. I don't always have wifi so I have taken pictures of it in the hope that if I get lost I will still be able to find my way. The area around the bus station is busy and there are lots of people. I walk with purpose along the main road of Avenue Javier Prado Este for 20 minutes or so to reach the junction with Av...

The Journey to get to Nazca from Cusco takes a whole day, is long and very dull, by flight from Cusco to Lima then a transfer to the bus station and the best coach I've ever ridden in with Cruz Del Sur. (It was like a plane! Movies on demand and a hostess serving food and drinks, but with leather seats and lots of extra room!) I pull back the curtain now and then to look at the passing landscape with the sea and its rolling waves on my right side and the desert o...

Todays the day I go to Matchu Picchu! I get up and pack everything ready for today, putting my main bag into storage here at the hotel and taking my new day bag over to the queue line. I'm there at 4.45am, the sun hasn't yet risen and its a bit chilly. The queue is already very long and it takes an hour to get to the front of the queue whilst the sun rises. The bus zig zags up the side of the mountain for half an hour and eventually I reach the entrance by 6.15am...

Today I wake up at 6.15am and get up and pack up my washing which has dried overnight and everything else ready for todays adventure. Joep, Caroline and I sit back at the table where we had our beer together last night. The only table in this beautiful little garden. There are palm trees, a banana tree, and a beautiful red hibiscus tree. We are invited upstairs to the breakfast room where there are boiled eggs and bread and jams and fruit juice and tea. We wait a...

I wake up early again at 5am and I lie in bed listening to the loud dawn chorus here. There are things close by that I can hear like the dogs and roosters which roam free about the place. Theres also the sounds of birds singing and the Cicadas sound loud again like they did last night after the rafting. Its an undescrible sound, a cross between water rushing through old pipes in the next room and old powerlines starting up, a constant tinatus type sound which can...