Arequipa is such a lovely colonial town, full of churches, cathedrals and beautiful colourful buildings. One of my main attractions was its convent, which used to have hundreds of devoted nuns, but no there is just less than a 100, with ages ranging from 18 to 90 years old. Absolutely stunning building, with most of the outside walls painted terracota and electric blue, like modern mud huts made from volcanis rock. Its a whole town in itself, with all its little ...

Inca Trail complete! What an amazing and possibly the most enduring and exhausting 4 days of my life! Day 1 - the easy day, yeah right! Climbing mountains like you would not believe, and would definately not do if in another situation! But there is no way back, so onwards and upwards! There were 28 of us trekking in total with 45 porters to carry all our bags, tents, kichen equipment (including ovens!), gas and food for the whole trek, really amazing what they ca...

Well im now in Peru, and the first port of call was Puno at lake Titikaka, i say lake it is more like an ocean, its sooooooooooo vast, its amazing, highest and largest one at altitude. Most importantly staying in a hotel (with stars!) that has a bath and hot and cold water, and you dont get electricuted when having a shower, always a bonus! Spent 2 days on lake, visiting floating isalnds and the locals, then travelling 2 hrs to another non floating isalnd to stay...

Arrived in the very small town of Uyuni, based around the Salt Flats, in which will be spending 2 days on. 12,000 km of flat land totally salt, there are small villages on the edges of the Flat and one osland of cactus´, and that is all. All can see is white for miles and miles, very strange! Does wierd thingd to your skin, as the salt dries it out, the sun is beaming down on you, but you are wearing layers upon layers cause it is freezing! No win situation...

hello, currently about 4000 metres above sea level in a town called Potosi, whcih is one of the highest towns devloped at alttitude. Very quiant place and very South America, not commercial, and friendly and sometimes slightly strange locals, which seem to be totally unfazed by our big yellow truck invading this small town. Definately chilling out here getting used to alttitude, really strange climate, then moving onto a place called Uyuni on 16th Oct, to visit S...