Hey everyone, hope you are all well! Just a quick update of what i have been up too. I am currently in Cusco, Peru, which is a really beautiful city. Still really enjoying my travels. La Paz was brilliant, I really enjoyed my time there. The highlight was definately cycling down the most dangerous road in the world! It was such an experience! A real adrenaline rush. It was much scarier than I expected, with 400m drops of the edge of the dusty track that had huge hairbins corners!! The views were amazing. You had to cycle the whole thing really fast, if you kept your breaks on you would skid of the road! I wont scare you too much with the fatality rates but an English guy died in march cycling and 37 cars go over evey year!! ahhh! At least I can say that all now since doing it! Unfortunately, I had my camera stolen with 2 of my memory chips in when I was out one night in La Paz, which was really annoying as I lost loads of photos..which for me are one of the most important parts of my trip - i love the snap shot which can then evoke so many memories. So I was quite upset about that :( but I still have some and Georgie and Saz have got loads that I can have aswell....so not all is lost! Everyone keeps saying it is about the experience aswelll...which is so true not constanstly thinking about when to take the next photo is quite nice and you just get in to the thing which your doing and relax. Since La Paz, we firstly had to say goodbye to Will and Olly, our boys!! It was really sad, we have been with them for the last 4 months everyday! They are such great guys! They feel like family!! (We really miss them) so after our fairwell, we started travelling with Leo (a friend from back home) and another girl called Jo who is really great and chilled. We got a bus to Lake Titicarca, which was really beautiful. Seems so ancient there...you can imagine the Incas believing that the sun was born there! We set off for a night and day on Isle de Sol (the suuposed birthplace of the sun), which was so beautiful, many inca ruins (the first of lots to come I expect!)! We also hired a sailing boat on the Lake and gave our sea legs a test!! We then got a bus, crossing the boarder to Puno in Peru! We were all quite sad to say fairwell to Bolvia...I absolutely loved my time there. In Puno, we went to see some floating islands that are made out of reeds, which I thought were going to be fascianting. The families made everything out of reeds,including their houses and boats aswell as the foundations of their ground! But it had totally been ruined by tourism, the people on the islands were just living everyday like a show(it felt like a zoo). The families were totally dependent on the money from tourism, it now is the only source of money for them...it was really sad to see. I found it quite upsetting. Lots of the children had rotting teeth from all the sweets tourists took and gave them and there were loads of fat americans taking photos of all the kids, I just found it really degrading to their culture and I dont know how their culture will ever develop because they are constantly trying to show it in its traditonal form rather than looking to the future. Really made me think about how detremental tourism can be in some places, and how I was contributing to that in so many places around South America. We moved swiftly on from Puno to Cusco, we arrived yesterday- it seems like such a cool city. It has a really beautiful centre and there is so much history. Its probablly the most touristy place I have been so far..but its quite cool because you meet so many travellers. I am off on the Inca trail on Wednesday which I am really excited about and then after that I have to say goodbye to Georgie and Sarah which I am going to find really hard!! We have become really great friends and it will be really strange being here without them. Hope your all well....lots of south american love from Soph xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx