Getting to Aguas Caliente. We were ready at 4:30 today to catch a taxi to the Santiago bus station where we had been informed that buses to Santa Maria started at 5. We arrived in plenty of time to buy our tickets only to be informed that the tourist information people were wrong (shock!!!!) and the first bus didn't in fact leave until 7:15!!! We were both unsurprisingly very pissed off at this and sat Grumbling for the next half hour or so until a lady show...

Cuzco 1am in the morning and we are woken by the stillness of the bus and then by some security people searching the bus, no idea what for, including looking under our feet before leaving us to continue on our journey. We arrive in Cuzco at just after 4am and settle ourselves down to wait for daylight before making a move to walk to our hostel. Finally at about 6 it is light enough for us to walk safely and with our packs on our back we made our way through th...

Floating Islands We were up rather early today as we had been told that we would be picked up from the hostel at 8 for a tour we'd booked the previous evening. We had our breakfast of bread, jam and tea before heading down to reception where we were informed that we were in fact half an hour early and woudn't be picked up until 8:30. We decided to use this time to get some money out and had a brief look at the church, park and railway station (which looks very...

Across the border. We didn't really do much today, firstly we sorted out the payment to Mae's dad, which took a ridiculous amount of time considering we phoned them the day before!! We then set off, after grabbing a coffee of course, to discover if anything was happening with regards to the festival today. It turned out however that it wasn't really, there were still lots of victory parades going on and many people getting drunk but apart from that not much......