Dear All, Well you'll all be glad to know that we are alive and thankfully not caught in the earthquake or the tsunami. We felt the tremor here in Cusco the night before we left for our trek. It was surreal and can only be compared to the feeling you get when you've had way to much to drink and you think the ground and the walls are swaying. Only this time they actually were! As we left the next morning at 4am for 5 days we didn't realise how bad it had been unt...

Dear All, Thankfully our bus journey to Arequipa was more spacious and there was less effluent flowing down the bus. Security was tight and every passenger was videoed before getting on the bus in case something happened. Even though we had more room neither of us managed to get much sleep and arrived in Arequipa at 8.30 a little bleary eyed and in need of some shut eye. The hostal we had chosen did not have vacancies until 12 so we left our bags at the hostal a...