DAY 89 - 90 11th October - 12th October: Colca Canyon, Peru We left the hotel at 7:00am to head to the Colca Canyon - which was a 6hour bus journey to place town nearby called Chivay. That afternoon we went on a little walk around then headed to some hot springs before dinner. The next morning we woke up at 5am to head to the Canyon in hope to see some Condors. Colca Canyon is a canyon of the Colca River in southern Peru. Peru's third most-visited tourist ...

DAY 88: 10th October: Arequipa, Peru After a good nights sleep in a bed - we all woke up and packed up and headed to the airport as we were getting a flight to Arequipa. Arequipa is the capital city of the Arequipa Region in southern Peru. With a population of 904,931 it is the second most populous city of the country. Arequipa lies in the Andes mountains, at an altitude of 2,335ms above sea level; the former snow-capped volcano El Misti overlooks the city...

DAY 84 - 87: 6th October - 9th October: Inca Trail and Machu Picchu We all woke up and left the hotel in Ollantaytambo to get to our meeting point to start the Inca trail. Our hike started around 9am we had to trek 12km to Wayllabamba - the weather started off very nice but after one hour it began to rain. So out came the rain jackets and they were not put away until the morning we arrived at Machu Picchu. The weather was terrible. The second day was very...

DAY 83: 5th October Ollantaytambo, Peru Ollantaytambo is a town and an Inca archaeological site in southern Peru some 60 kilometers northwest of the city of Cusco. It is located at an altitude of 2,792 meters above sea level in the district of Ollantaytambo, province of Urubamba, Cusco region. During the Inca Empire, Ollantaytambo was the royal estate of Emperor Pachacuti who conquered the region, built the town and a ceremonial center. At the time of th...

DAY 80 - 82: 2nd October - 4th October: Amazon, Peru On the morning we left for the amazon I was not feeling very well at all - I think I had eaten something bad. We headed to the airport to get our flight to Puerto Maldonado in the amazon. Puerto Maldonado is a city in Southeastern Peru in the Amazon forest 55 kilometres (34 mi) west of the Bolivian border on the confluence of the Tambopata and Madre de Dios River, a tributary of the Amazon River. It is...