Sarah continued... Day 17 As you can imagine, the morning after the night before was not overly pleasant but unfortunately we had a schedule to keep so by 8 am we were on the bus to Puno, a city in the South of Peru situated on the edge of the World´s highest navigable lake, Lake Titicaca. This was a pretty long ride, taking most of the day which it must be admitted was punctured by a few unpleasant incidents along the way. 1) We had to stop the bus and pull...

Hello, back to Sarah again now for a little update on the very amazing Machu Picchu. Day 15 So, the big day started very early from our hopelessly retro, tile covered hotel in Machu Picchu pueblo (town) with a dash to the bus station to beat the queues and make it up the mountain early. Suprisingly quickly we reached the top and were greeted with our first spectacular views of Machu Picchu, in particular the famous peak that overlooks the ruins which is named...

Day 12 Yet another early start on this so called ´holiday´ and a 3 hour journey to Lares was the beginning of the highly anticipated Lares Trek. We were advised to buy toys for the children we´d meet on the way so stopped at a market in Calca. I bought some cars, Sarah bought some pens and paper and I realised immediately that my presents were going to be trumped by Sarahs as hers were useful and were going to benefit the children in later life. Cars however ...

Day 11 Hello Tom here again. This update has been a long time in the making so I´ll try make it a good one. Started the day in Cusco following a meeting with our Lares Trek leader "Freddy". A brief note on Freddy - he is probably the hardest and coolest man on the planet. We were warned of freezing temperatures and were advised to get warmer clothes to avoid losing limbs. Naturally being a man I took this too far and the next day I bought myself a ´g...

Hello once again. Now from the response Tom got from my family for his last ´hilarious´blog (inflation of the head here) I should give all blogging responsibilties over to him. But this time it´s my turn so hopefully i can challenge his record! As you can see we are now in Cusco, which i think we are both agreed on is our favourite city stop so far. It is a buzzing little place, absolutely jam packed with fully donned Alpaca jumper wearing, flip flop sportin...