¡Hola!Everyone must be getting very good at Spanish now after our updates.  We are currently in Cusco which is a fantastic town with a great main square, lots of fascinating little side streets, it´s own share of nearby Inca ruins as well as serving as the base for trips to Machu Picchu. We arrived at 6am Tuesday morning after our first night journey with Peru´s classiest bus network Cruz del Sur. They provided  good dinner, a mov...

Hello All, The train to Machu Picchu leaves from San Pedro station in Cusco at 6.15am and arrives about 10.10 in Agua Calientes which is a small town straddling the Urubamba river. It seems only to exist for tourists which means a lot of places to stay and eat tho. We picked the first hostel we saw and then set off on our first adventure, a climb up Punkutusi (I forget..) a mountain just outside the town from which you can see Machu Picchu. It was pretty wet ...

Hola!We are now in Arequipa, Peru´s second city with a population of about 1 million. It´s quite a sprawling place but the main square is really pretty and the Misti volcano provides a stunning backdrop. It´s also only about 2500m above sea level so is lovely and warm. We arrived here on Thursday evening from Bolivia, taking a recommendation for a hostel from a guy selling hostels on the bus. We have a tendency to be suspicious of anyone selling...

Hola again.Hope everyone is well and not suffering too much in the cold (It´s pretty damn cold here as we have spent th last 2 weeks at about 3500m and didn´t realise the closer you get to God the colder it gets. I always thought heaven would be warm, but now I remember that´s the other place...).We finally made it out of La Paz when I managed to drag myself away from the bathroom. A particularly pleasant stay for Betty as the room we were in on...

Hello Hope all are well. Again the picture is not really reflecting where we are but at least where we are headed. It´s now been 5 days in La Paz. We were supposed to leave this morning but I had rather a hectic night and was not in any fit state to crawl out of bed. I´ve been ill pretty much since we arrrived in La Paz. We went out for a meal at an authentic Bolivian Restaurant with Stephano and Ombretta on Thursday night and the authenticity of th...