We left Cusco at 7am, the morning after finishing the Inca trail. We wanted to fit another place in our brief time in Peru and plumped for it's 2nd largest city, Arequipa. We managed to get a flight from there to Lima for a mere $64 each which rather helped our decision. However, this still meant a lovely 10 hour bus journey from Cusco. It passed through some fine mountain scenery to get there but the journey was rather characterised by screaming children, an inc...

With Jo hopefully over her tummy troubles, we were booked in for the 4 day Inca trail on 2nd January. We were looking forward to it but were a little concerned with the weather as we were in rainy season plus we'd heard a few tales that conditions could get pretty miserable in the current climate. We met our travelling group of 14 at a briefing the night before and they were a pretty nice bunch, the majority being English. Ominously as we were driven to...

We arrived here on 28th December after not the most terribly comfortable bus journeys from Bolivia. We were promised a cama bus but that turned out to be bulls**t and it was a cramped horrible old bus instead. It also stopped briefly at probably the grimmest town we've yet seen called Juliaca in Peru. We pity anyone who lives there. However, Cusco is a different kettle of fish. The town centre (if not the outskirts) are beautiful and full of character. It's...

We arrived here on 24th December to the lakeside town of Copacobana to spend Christmas. We were very happy to make it here at all given Jo's nasty bout of illness in Uyuni. She was let out of hospital on the evening of the 22nd and we caught one of the 'luxury' cama buses that night to La Paz, the Bolivian capital. I use the word luxury relative to Bolivia, not luxury compared to the many other buses we've taken in South America. It was a pretty rough ride ...

We left San Pedro de Attacama bound for Bolivia on the 19th December on a 3 day trip on a 4 X 4 vehicle, the highlight being a visit to the Salar de Uyini salt flats. Although we were excited about this trip as we'd heard great things about it we were a tad nervous too. This was due to stories we'd also heard about exhausted drivers falling alseep at the wheel and knackered vehicles blowing up! Any way, here's how we got on..... DAY 1 We made our way ...