Everything is a work in progress, with the piles of reeds left drying, other being sorted and selected and others being used to mend holes in walls and roofs - and of course the floor. 'Kamisaraki!' "Wa-lee-kee!' The Uros greeting from the families 'Kamisaraki' A welcome and how are you? then we respond with 'Wo-lee-kee!!' which means, something along the lines of, 'very good thank you'. Our fantastic guide said this was important when arriving to their is...

So, we have had to go a bit off route due to time and also trying to work things around our Inca Trail booking. Travelling all the way to Puno (very close to the Bolivian boarder) to travel back to Cusco for the Inca Trail and then back this way again. Not being able to get the Inca dates we wanted has been a bit of a pain but we have made things work, couldn't miss out Punos Lake Titicaca. We travelled 12 hours on a bus to Arequipa and then from there a furth...

We thankfully had a day bus this time, just a four hour journey south to Huacachina. Although it takes us so long to get anywhere we still managed to arrive in the dark. Completely unsure how we get there past the dunes.. camel? buggie? tuk-tuk? car? we naively weren't sure we would even get there in the dark. Turns out they have fully functioning roads to these kind of places so we were ok. We took a 5 Sole tuk-tuk along the 8km stretch of road from Ica city. ...

Who would have thought Id get a trick or treater knocking at the hostel door..?!

Instant love for Lima! Strange too as we had heard nothing but bad reviews from this massive capital city. Arriving, once again, in the early hours of the morning trying to blag our hostel room early we were overjoyed to be given the keys at 7am, result!! Could not wait to see my bed. The Flying Dog Hostel was in such a great location, smack bam central. An old building decorated to the nines with Halloween decorations. I decided I couldn't be without a ca...