René and I took a night bus from Arequipa to Nazca, leaving around 9pm and arriving in at 6am. As we left the bus terminal, we were soon talking to a guy asking if we wanted to see the Nazca lines. We did, but we didn´t want to go for the first offer we found. However, at that time in the morning, nowhere was open, so since we wanted to see the lines as early that morning as possible, we negotiated a price. By 7:30am we were at the airstrip office fo...

So after leaving my hostel, it was only a short walk to the Plaza de Armas in Arequipa´s town centre. After admiring it in the morning sunshine for a while, I walked up to the Monastery, and looked around the building, now hundreds of years old. There were some great views of the nearby volcano, El Misti, which towers above the city. It took a while to walk around the labyrinthine network of corridors and chambers, and was nice to see.I wanted to book mysel...

Shortly after I left Copacabana, we arrived at the Bolivia-Peru border. The guy sitting next to me on the coach was an Israeli guy, who complained the whole time about how people were treating him. When we boarded again after passport control, he told me how he´d had to bribe the officer because there was a problem with his initial stamp into Bolivia. I was glad when he got off at Puno, where we had to change buses to continue to Cusco, as I couldn´t put up muc...