Today was a sightseeing day in order for me to become acclimatised a little better to the altitude. Armed with bags of coca leaves and an early start we headed towards the Sacred Valley for a challenging (or so thought at the time!) 1.5 hour trek. This turned out to be a simple walk in the park in comparison to the hike that lay ahead. The sacred valley was great, vast open space while surrounded by amazing snow capped mountains and if you stopped for a momen...

Hola! Im knackered. the end x Ha ha, not really, but I am knackered. Have been in Cusco for a couple of days and its a wonderful place, a real party place with lots of tradition. Lots of Peruvian people in their national dress, carrying their babies around wrapped in colourful wraps. Tuk-tuks everywhere, or a variation of them anyway, kind of half motorbike, half milk float, its great. Have spent a couple of days here in order to accli...

Well hello there you wonderful people. Just a quickie (ooo-eerr) to let you know I'm alive. This is the 1st day of my 'big adventure' and the first day following the nightmare that was my journey from Heathrow to Lima, Peru....or should I refer to 'nightmares' as 'adventures' from now on? Taking the positive from a 26 hour journey, I randomly found myself in a bar in Maimi chatting to 3 Actuaries from London, as you do..... Anyway, you guys, (you know who...

Didn't sleep again. 5am start. I swear the tent was on a slope, I kept waking up at the bottom of the tent with my hat over my eyes and gloves back to front. What a kuffufle! I woke with a pain on the top of my head and a lump. I started to panic that something had implanted into my bonce while I was sleeping, something like one of those big whitchity grub things from the 'jungle celeb' programme. It turned out to be sun burn on my scalp, nice. I knew ...