My dearest! In my last entry the main topic was the Machu Picchu Trek. After spending some more days in Cuzco and having every single clothing item washed, our truck drove us to Puno, near the border to Bolivia. There we spent an entire day in a local family: with our own mum and dad, cooking for us and dressing us for prom. Luckily our parents spoke spanish and not just Quechua, so we could understad each other pretty fine. My father, Segundino, had even ita...

Hola gente! My third week in South America just started, but it feels like i have been here forever... The group has grown together like a huge family (we're 30 people) and I can talk to locals and easily find the way in every bigger city. I even told my taxi driver in lima the way back, for I had forgotten the name of the hotel. We have a few canadians in our group, some swiss and 4 guys from London itself. But 60% of the people of our group are from australi...

Hi everyone! How is everything back there? How is winter in Switzerland? E per quelli che vivono sott'acqua: c'è corrente? The weather here is exactly as everyone expects, so I didn't expect it. I'll be buying havaianas real soon and i might paint my underwear in order to let them look like shrinked trousers - it's hard to cover up all these hello kitty faces and flower patterns: a classy military look will do. I'm happy to tell you, that everything went fine...