We had a one day window in the middle of a series of strikes and road blocks and decided to high tail it to Puno which is on Lake Titicaca. I was so ill I hardly knew where we were going but you could see all the stones at the side of the road […]
Read MoreI have been living in Cusco, Peru since May and having been really enjoying my stay here. I initially worked as part of the Mountain Fund which is a charity set up to help Porters in Nepal and Peru get fair rights. The Mountain fund organised my accommodation with Yuri and his family and […]
Read MoreWe got up at 3.30 am to catch the four o’clock bus, to see these birds. The bus turned up at 4.15. Then the bus driver forgot to tell us where to get off so we ended up in Copanaconde and had to hang around for an hour to get a bus back to […]
Read MoreYou can only get in to see Chincherro with a tourist ticket. It caused great difficulty for us as some of our group did not have a tourist ticket. Chincherro has a lovely church built on Inca remains. The wall and ceiling of the Church are heavily decorated by wonderful paintings mainly of flowers. […]
Read MoreSalta is quite a modern pleasant city but with very elegant Colonial buildings and has a cowboy feel about it as it caters to the local Gauchos and landowners. It has a nice town square and a stunning Cathedral. There is a cable car to Cerro San Bernardo for some magnificent views. It is famous […]
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