Manu National Park Manu National Park is almost 2 million hectares of pristine rainforest, from cloudforest streams and waterfalls to wide slow moving rivers and dense low-land jungle. It is stunning, and home to vast quantities of flora and fauna, with it's only permant inhabitants it's wildlife and a few virtually uncontacted native groups who have split off from their major tribal units. It took an age to get to - 6 hours by bus and we reached the edge ...

White Water Rafting Having driven along side a pretty flat looking stretch of river for about 10 miles, I wasn't overwhelmed by the prospect of kayaking along it, let alone rafting. It was, as the canoe club would call it, a rocky scrape. Fortunately, we didn't paddle that section, but instead we stopped at the get-off, got changed and then drove another 30 minutes up river, where I couldn't see the river at all so I had no idea what to expect. Once I manage...

Cusco Cusco is 3500m above sea level. I did not appreciate before we got here what that really meant. It means that a 2.5 hour walk left me feeling like I'd climbed a mountain or gone for a long, hard run. Its gorgeous though. We've stayed in two hotels so far (after the awful nights sleep we'd had on a coach and in a single bed in Lima we felt it was worth spending a little more than we had budgeted for for the first two nights, but now its back to reality) and...