Hi All, At the moment we are in Puno which is in Peru. Tomorrow we are going to stay with a local Cachuan family that loves on an Island in Lake Titicaca. The trip to Puno was really interesting as it is very dry and freezing in the shade but boiling hot in the sun. Today we were on a 6 hour bus from Cusco to Puno and it was just miles and miles of endless bleached out looking grass - completely flat yet on every horizon you could see the alp´s which are ama...

Hello All, So sorry it has taken so long to put in the first blog entry. (I will never complain about the internet in Australia again! Also I apoligise for the many mistakes in this entry typing on a Spanish keyboard is tricky!) We have just finished trecking to Machu Picchu (4 days of solid walking, climbing, and altitude sickness - for me anyway Shannon only had two Sarosh pills and was fine while I was having tree a day and suffocating) it was the hardest ...