Thanks to everyone who has left me messages, it has been great to hear the news from home and that I am not missing much summer weather. The last time I updated you all was when I was in La PAz and so much has happened in the few days since then! The rest of the 20th Jan was spent doing a little bit of shopping at the Witches market in La Paz. The market had all the regular items for tourists plus strange medicines and all sorts of concoctions like love potions ...

So much has been happening since I last posted. I am now in Bolivia and enjoying the craziness of the place but first I will update you on the last few days. My last day in cusco (14th Jan) was an interesting day. We were shown the local markets by our tourleader and boy was that an interesting experience. They sell all types of food items there like cows wombs, cow heads, herbs for curing all sorts of diseases etc. After the market I went to a few churches and...