Monthly Archives: January 2016

Having spent yesterday afternoon and evening with today’s prospect looming right above us we were both a little nervous when we woke up. We decided to get up early and try and get most of the hike over before the sun started beating down too. We were told it would take three hours so weContinue reading “The Climb Out”

Well our 2016 started off active! We were up early to start the walk down the Colca Canyon. There was a direct route we could take straight down or an option of a detour which would hit 3 villages on the way. The only problem with that, was that we had to descend all theContinue reading “Feliz año Nuevo (Happy New Year)”

While in Arequipa we wanted to see the Canyon de Colca which is meant to be 168m short of being the deepest canyon in the world. What we didn’t realise that while its touted as being one of the top things to do in Arequipa it’s actually a 6 hour bus ride away. Unfortunately weContinue reading “New Years Eve at Cabanaconde”

 We had read that Peru busses were a bit hot and miss and that the misses were quite unpleasant so we decided to go with the highly recommended Cruz del Sur bus company. It started off pretty fantastic, reclining seats, wide and TVs in the headrests. Unfortunately the busses hadn’t been recommended by anyone overContinue reading “Arequipa”

I don’t know if it was because Machu Picchu was the last real big thing we really wanted to see or it was just coincidence but when we got back to Cuzco I got sick. We have both been battling a little tummy bug since we got back from the jungle but for the lastContinue reading “Last two days in Cusco”