From the grey town of Puno we headed to the far more elegant city of Arequipa, with its white stoned colonial buildings, impressive churches and lovely plaza's. The city is also home to the Santa …
Puno – Lake Titicaca and the floating islands
Finally left Cusco, slightly hungover, on New Years Day (at 7am eeek!!) and headed for the town of Puno, this is the main town on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca (the worlds highest navigable …
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Buses!!
Local buses in South America, well Ecuador, Peru & Bolivia, are generally knackered old shells of a bus from the 1970's that is somehow still running! They have no air condition, they have windows …
Cusco – New Years Eve
The few days between Christmas and New Year you could see the city starting to get busier with more 'Western' faces....most of them wearing board shorts, flip flops and looking like they'd …
Cusco – Machu Picchu Trek
Its one of the new 7 wonders of the World, its a symbol of South America, its an engineering feat that no-one understands, its significance is unknown, it is also at the end of a one of the most …
Cusco – Sacred Valley and around
We had pre-booked our Inca Trail Trek to Machu Picchu before leaving England so we headed from Iquitos to Cusco just before Christmas, arriving a few days early to give ourselves time to acclaimitize …