Day 1: 14km: 2380m → 2980m After a three hour bus ride to reach Km 82 (start of the usual 4day Inca trail) we could see the snow capped peaks framing our trek into the Andes. Much commotion of porters, guides, drivers, cooks and market sellers greeted us at the checkpoint into the start of the [...]
Fran and Nige do the globe
tasting the world
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Jun 21
Cusco
Once we left Pisco and our most amazing hostel hosts (our surrogate parents for the night) we returned to gloomy Lima for a quick day of sightseeing and a chinese “Chifa” fix in Chinatown. It’s never as good as we hope… (A bit like the pizzas in South America) Looming over us, the prospect of [...]
Jun 06
Peru- at last!
More torturous bus journeys to get us over the border into Peru (the hangovers didn’t help), but a day of travelling for 16hrs on skanky buses with cockroaches is not fun! We finally made it into Peru at about 2am and thankfully found a lovely beach cabin to chill out in for a few days [...]