Ok. A quick one from Lake Titicaca. We left Cusco by overnight bus that was to stop at Puno, on Peru's side of Lake Titicaca, and move onto Copacabana, which is the town on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca. We arrived at Puno at about 4am for a three hour stop over and whilst there we were lucky enough to see an amazing sunrise that was the only highlight of our time sitting in a rather shabby looking bus station for three hours, but a highlight non the less....

This journal entry will be a mishmash of Cusco and our adventures of getting to Machu Picchu, but hopefully with a couple of well positioned headings the thread of the story should remain traceable. CUSCO The bus from La Paz was uneventful, except the random stop the bus took to allow all the unsuspecting passengers watch the roadside slaughter of a lamb, something that took both Em and I unpleasantly by surprise. As Peru is now in its tourist "high seas...

As it turns out the stop in La Paz has been affected by our hurried plans to make it Cusco, Peru in time to satisfy the natural attraction to Machu Picchu, the ancient "Lost Inca City", perched perisously on the sheer faces of the Andeas. We arrived, along with our travel buddies from Brazil (Carol and Leo), safely in La Paz and immediately started looking into tours that might be available for the Inca Trail. The "Inca Trail", or the "Co...

The afternoon of the 14th of June we departed The Pantanal, for Corumba, Brazil, a crappy border town. We departed for Corumba with the hope of crossing the border into Bolivia and catching the so called "Death Train" to Santa Cruz. The bus from The Pantanal to Corumba was 5 hours and unfortunately the federal police station at Corumba closed an hour or two before our arrival, and hence we couldn't cross the border without the expressed (and stamped) ...

The bus ride from Rio de Janeiro to The Pantanal was no small undertaking, 22 hours if the bus ran on time. But despite the lack of sleep Em and I waded into the scrum of spruikers at the bus stop at Campo Grande to negotiate a 'Pantanal Safari' for the most reasonable price that we could muster. After an hour of shopping around and negotiation we organised a 4 night, 3 day tour with a group called The Pantanal Discovery, for which we paid $R330 each. We jumped...