Puno & Lake Titicaca8th Nov - 10th Nov (Day 249 - Day 251) In order to get to Puno we had treated ourselves and booked onto a luxury bus. The bus was also special because instead of taking us straight to Puno it tooks us to some interesting sights along the way. These included an lovely small church with an beautifully painted interior and some more very interesting Inca and pre Inca archelogical sites. The bus route itself took us across the Andean Plate...

Cusco 25th Nov - 7th Nov (Day 246 - Day 248)After an amazing morning in Machu Picchu, we decended to Aguas Calientes at the foot of Machu Picchu for some lunch before heading back to Cusco. Once back in Cusco we were completely drained and tired after the last 3 days of trekking but instead of heading for an early night we went out to a local restuarant to meet up with some of the other guys who had been on the trek for a final dinner together. It was great to ...

Lares Trek & Machu Picchu 1st Nov - 4th Nov (Day 242 - Day 245) What a crazy four days it has been. Day 1 of trek we were awoken by our alarms at 4.30am. We had an hour to get dressed, showered before our pick up. Bye bye to showers for a couple of days!! We drove to Ollantaytambo in the sacred valley to pick up the rest of our group. We would eventually be a group of 10, Inc one gap guy that decided to come on the trek for fun. There were us four, a few ...

Cusco 30th Oct - 31st Oct (Day 240 - Day 241) We arrived in Cusco in the evening and was greeted by pouring rain, which wasn´t a great sign as we had to start our trek in 2 days time. We took a taxi to our hotel in the centre of Cusco. The hotel was great but our rooms were on the 3rd and 4th floors which with the impact of the altitude made carrying our bags to our rooms quite a challanging experience. Once we had settled in and recovered from the climb ...

Lima October 28th - October 29th (Day 238 - 239) We spent most of the day before Jess and T were due to arrive hanging out in the hostel with some of the staff who we had got to know pretty well over the previous few days. We also managed to find another hostel with a 4 bed dorm where we could all stay for the next two nights. The new hostel seemed a little dodgy but we had a padlock on our dorm and it was very close to our other hostel so it was all good. A...