AHH so the pinnacle of our tour... the Inka Trail trek. Matt flew into Cuzco the day before we were to start our tour... we met up perfectly in the town centre of Cuzco - Plaza de Major. i was sitting on the fountain in the middle of the square so he saw me easily- we put his stuff in our hotel we were to stay in that night and went to have breaky at Jacks! we introduced him to this wonderous food... although i dont think he was as excited about as us cos he has...

The following is our trip to the Amazon! we booked flights even though they were more expensive as we couldnt stand another 14 hours there on a dodgy bus with no aircon and then back again, when the airport is 15 away and the flight isonly 1 hour! the hour on the plane absolutely FLEW... we are so used to up to 36 hours on buses that we couldnt believe it when they said we were about to land! the view from the plane was amazing and totally different from every ot...

We got into Cuzco at 4am - GREAT and had to find our way to the hostel. the taxi driver ripped us off massively charging us $20 soles but given we had just turned down an unofficial taxi, and it was 4am in the morning, and we had hardly slept, i think we were going to pay whatever to get there. we got to loki and were first on the waiting list, they told us if we wanted a room now we could have one, but we would have to pay for the night before, we were povos of...