9/6 Isla del Sol?Copacabana and La Paz Im feeling better myself but its rained all night and it was raining hard, on Isla del Sol! the one day we had chosen to spend exploring the island of the sun and its raining. We try and wait the rain out, having breakfast with a favourite waiter but with no luck. We weigh up the options and decide, in the wet the treking on the island was off. We all headed back to Copacobana with the plan of an earlier bus to La Paz. A ma...

8/6 To Isla del Sol Direct bus but we changed to a mini bus to get to the border and again on the other side? direct my arse!! We arrived at the border with the usual walk through fun, stamps one side, then another line. We cross the border to Bolivia and welcomed Laura and Joe to Bolivia for the first time. After arguing for a while we get another coach to Copacobana. We were so hungry by this point and I don't want to sound ungrateful but after getting menus ...

5/6 Back in Cusco A slow and steady morning after the days of hiking the Inca trail. In the morning we caught up with Jose to get the photos he took along the trek from him. Jose would jump out and snap a quick shot, or organise all of us at the best places and also just snap interesting things. Joe was in a state and couldn't come to meet Jose one last time. He was wrecked all day. After the meeting, Laura and Joe moved down to our hostel, with one interestin...

The Inca Trail 31st May - 4th June The plan is as follows, we completed a community visit on day one, before the 4 day Inca trail. The village we visited was where the Quecha or porters lived. They are locals that carry upto 25kgs around the trail with us. We were to have 8 Quecha, one who was a chef and another an assistant chef. I (Andrew) will write about our visit and day 3 of the trek, while Sarah will explain the events of days 1, 2 and her birthday on da...

Sexywoman!! We met Cusi for the first time in the early afternoon at 1pm. He came to the hostel to run through what we needed and the plan for the trek. We all hit it off really well. His English was perfect and we had a good joke to each other. The four day trek was to be made one day longer with a local village visit. We knew this but what we didn't know was this village is where our porters are from, the locals their family and the children their kids. This w...