We left Cusco on the overnight bus and settled down with our avocado sandwiches. Lisa gobbled more than she could manage, and with the rocking of the bus it all came up again into a small plastic bag. Charlie luckily slept though the ordeal. Lisa blames the excessive amount of indigenous people in the aisle squashing up against her and stinking out the bus.We both woke up lots during the night because it was freezing on the bus. We had gone with a cheapie company...

Cuscu 2 After a solid sleep we awoke to the hideous alarm at 4:45am and packed up to go to the train station. We wandered in the wrong direction and had to be directed by kulaks through a closed market place. No-one thought to put signs up. We bought coffee and cakes from an old street vendor and boarded the train in a much more relaxed way than in Ollantaytambo. We were some of the first people on the train. Again Lisa was sat separately and Laurent came over to...

A New 7th Wonder of the World? Sacred Valley We started out tour to Machu Picchu by going through some of the ruins in the Sacred Valley that we could have visited on foot if we were not too lazy to do the Inca Trail. We were to be picked up from our hotel between 8:30 and 8:45 for the bus at 9:00am. By 5 to 9 no-one had arrived so angrily we walked down to the office in a hurry. We were then walked to the bus by the tour agency people who tried to ask why we...

Cusco I - Waiting for the WOW 1. Bus Cama We left our hotel and arrived at the bus station to catch our bus to Cusco. We boarded the bus, and Lisa found her seat was occupied by a child. The mother moved the child out of her seat, and then replaced it so it half sat on Lisa's knee for the entire journey. A hideous meal of chicken and rice in polystyrene boxes was brought around for EVERYONE to enjoy. Lisa refused hers point blank. Charlie attempted a l...

Nasca  We took the cheapest bus we could from Ica to Nasca, which was only a 3.5 hour journey. A man on the bus initiated a conversation with us and asked us if we had a hotel. We had been through these protracted conversations before and just said we had a reservation. He asked which hotel so we told him the one we were thinking of going to. To our surprise and relief he worked for that hotel and gave us some information. We decided to go there and another ...