Royal Frankenstein Cusco

We finally got our train tickets, but then our pick up for the train station never arrived - PERUBOLIVIA ISNT A GREAT TRAVEL AGENCY - RATHER GO ELSEWHERE Anyway it served us right for being lazy, we got a cab at 07:30, and it was like 5 blocks to the train station, booked our luggage in and on we went, there were people buying tickets 10 min before the train left, and lots of empty seats, don't know why I thought it would sell out, I would just buy on the day at the station if I was you, spea...

So we set off from Puno on a tour bus called 'First Class' to Cusco, slightly different to our normal bus journeys as it involved stops at 6 different sights en route. After (another) early start, we first stopped off at a small museum where our guide explained a bit more of the history of Peru. Stop 2 was the highest point between Puno and Cusco and the line dividing the Cusco Valley to the Puno Valley, basically a huge tourist spot where we met every other tourist bus and there were locals ...

I´ve spent the last 3 1/2 days in Cusco, the old Inca capitol high in the Andes. The first third of the bus ride here was down the foggy, hilly sandscape of the southern part of the Peruvian coast. After turning inland and into the mountains, much of the journey consisted of endless 180 degree turns up switchback roads. I felt slightly ill at one point from that, but the altitude never gave me a problem -- maybe due to a combination of coming from Bogota, taking the acetazolamide tablets, and...

I woke up feeling queasy today. Perhaps it's the altitude (3800m above sea level) or the lack of dinner last night that's causing my heart to tighten. No time to lie in. We had to make our way to the train station for a 9 hr ride to Cusco. Backpacker's Service- US$17 First Class Service- US$119 I wonder if they have gold taps and silk cushions on the First Class train and get spoon fed by bikini clad babes & half naked hunks. That's a freaking US$102 more. For a train ride! Holy cow, you ...

And I`m ready to trek....

Arequipa was good but definataly the highlite was the old convent (not the canyon that I had to get up at 3am for!). It was ok though.

I do now have Gaffer on my boots to hold the sole on and stop them. They look very special in deed!

As soon as Stefan gets out of bed then we can goo look for some treking!

My clothes are in the wash! I have showered! but my mosquito bites are still very very itchy!
Relacing here for 2 daus before heading off to Lima

Cusco was an amazing place to spend 10 days! There was so much to do and so many things to see! Round each corner were more surprises! Stayed in a Hostel called "Royal Frankenstein". It was just off the main plaza and it is owned by a German guy who was so helpful. Great price and the selling factor for us was the way it was decorated! It looked like a prop store from some kind of horror/vampire film! He had a lizard called Martin and a dog called Bruno, who showed us the way to the train sta...

The night I arrived back in Cusco I was supposed to meet up with two friends I had made in Lima, Sophia and Emmeline but I couldn't get in touch with them so instead went out with a bunch of people from the Point hostel. It was a crazy night in which I met and ended up going back with a Peruvian girl from Lima who was living in Cusco. She was out with her sister and her sister's Canadian boyfriend.

Anyway the next day I moved in with her and spent the next few days partying...

Beautiful cobble-stoned streets of Cusco. Nothing like I had experienced before. Booked train tickets to Machu Picchu.

Spent the day in Aguas Caliente with Patrick and took the train back to Cuzco.