Decided to visit and trek colca canyon independently rather than on a tour. So I caught the bus to cobanaconde around midday which took about 6 hours and checked into a hostel called pachamama which is a really cute and cozy hostel and with the bar very social. Just spent the night chatting and having a few cocktails with an alpacha pizza and playing with the resident kitten! The next day four of us decided to trek up and down colca canyon (one of the deepest ...

I automatically fell in love with Arequipa so decided it would be the perfect place to continue on my Spanish learning quest! That evening being Saturday we hit the town! Got some dinner and before heading to a Bar to get 3 pisco sours for 12 soles- about £3 and 3 litre beers for 20 soles- bargain and a good start to the night! We then ended up in a Swedish bar with a Peruvian band playing covers of all the classic rock songs! We met a few more people here an...

Copacabama is a lovely little town on the massive lake titicaca- apparently one of the highest altitude lakes in the world! We got there in the afternoon so decided to climb a hill to watch the sunset..... Almost killed me- definitely due to the altitude and not all the food and wine I have been consuming! Really beautiful views over lake titicaca and the town! That night we got some grub of trout from the lake and when to this dingy bar where a wooden flute ban...

My time in la Paz mainly focused on eating a lot of great food- though none was really Bolivian! Met up with a friend I had met in brazil at the beginning of my trip and it was nice to see a friendly face. On my first day we had a walk around the witches market which was very interesting with llama foetus hanging all over the place of different ages- quite gross! As it was Saturday that night we decides to party though it was fun it was very unsuccessful! We st...

I got to sucre about 4am and luckily there was room in gringo hostel and the owners said I could go to sleep and not pay for that night which was lovely if him! That morning I signed up to Spanish lessons are sucre Spanish school and my lessons started that afternoon! To be honest most of my time in sucre revolved around going to school and doing homework! I did walk up to the mirador to see the views and had an amazing lunch, also saw the Bolivian president b...