From Cusco we took the overnight, 14 hour bus to Nazca, a route which has more hairpins than Andre Agassi's Roland Garros toupe (20 in case you were wondering) and probably caused just as much of a sleepless night. Originally the plan was to stop off at the Nazca Lines but due to the afore mentioned incident, neither of us were in the mood and opted for a short bus hop north to Ica which gave an opportunity for more zzzzzs. In hindsight it may well have been for ...

You could say that we bottled it, went against the traveller's devil may care attitude by not going to Lake Titicaca where rumours were abound that the border was closed/the immigration office burned down by rioters protesting against mining and oil concessions. Our adoption of the straight bat British approach, calculated and without risk was not without consequences - a 36 hour bus journey via Chile to Cusco, the details of which i will not bore you with. Many ...