Cuzco is a beautiful city deep in the Peruvian Andes, a historic city once the centre of the Inca world it is now backpacker central.  We arrived tweezerless in time for some dinner.  I ate alpaca.  I can now verify that not only do alpacas  make exceedingly warm jumpers they are incredibly tasty.  Alpaca wouldn't be the weirdest thing I ate that day. The rest of the day was filled with sightseeing and resting, aware that the trek was looming large on the h...

The Jungle "it's hot, damn hot.  Hot and wet.  That's ok if you're with a woman but not in the jungle." Good Morning Vietnam   After a few days of relaxing, and taking it easy it was time for our first tour.  A tour that would include amazing sights, spectacular scenery, monkeys and excruciating pain. We met our guide Alvaro and our 8 companions for the next 11 days, 3 Aussies, 2 Irish and 3 English. The first day we did a tour of Lima on foot a...

Days three and four in Peru UNO score lisa 2 martyn 0 Times card refused 2 We both woke up red and sore, the previous days lesson a painful one and surely one we would pay heed to.  Off we set to the beach, two deckchairs and an umbrella.  All that was missing was me hitching up my jeans, donning a hankie hat and paddling into the sea. We sat there eating our cornettos and reading our books, lovely.  The only two Europeans to be seen.  It was a gloriously ...

Day one and two in Peru. UNO score Lisa 0 Martyn 0 Number of times robbed 0 As we took off into the dark sky with the roads in to London gleaming white from the headlights I felt a little sorry for those heading to work. We landed in Madrid, no problems with flights. I took a malaria tablet, then promptly threw up into my lovely hat (see pictures for it's loveliness). Anyway the flight from Madrid to Lima was fine, watched 'the social network', pretty good f...