The Point Cusco

This is going to be another summary entry...

Manic First Night (26 July)
We got the bus on Sunday 26th from Urabamba after our colectivo escapade from Ollantaytambo. This was fairly incident free, aside from the driver, as is often the case, allowing aboard more passengers than seats and thus for the duration of the trip I was treated to the unnecessarily proximate presence of a nine year old boy sporting the ludicrous combo of pink frilly granny hat atop a black hood, haunting me a...

Well, after a couple of nights worth of sleep lost to overnight bus trips, I decided it was in my best interest to fly myself from Lima to Cusco instead. For $70 and a one hour flight it was well worth it! Spent the first day at the hostel relaxing on the couch and watching movies to allow my body to acclimatize. Going from sea level in Lima to 3326m in one hour is quite exhausting. Walking a flight of stairs has the same affect as going for an hour jog around the seawall! Jeremy showed up at...

Strikes, strikes *nd more strikes. Wh*t I´m le*rning more *nd more of in South Americ*, if the people feel supressed by the governemnt (which is often) they simply shut things down to r*ttle * few c*ges *nd h*ve their voices he*rd. Being stuck in Arequipe for 4 d*ys could h*ve been worse. A trendy city, with * r*ging night life, kept me preoccupied whilst w*iting for the bus route to Cusco to open up. When it fin*lly did, the experience w*s quite unique! I m*n*ged to find te only bus comp*ny ...

Time for another update folks!!

Last time we left you we were about to leave Arequipa and Head to Cusco.. We made it to Cusco on the night bus with no dramas - no spewing, no road blocks or any sign of the strike being back on (PHEW!).

Cusco is lovely, we spent the first day relaxing as the bus got in at 6am, and no one can really sleep on a bus. There are lots of advenure things to do in Cusco - mountain bike riding, hiking, para-gliding, rafting etc. so we did a bit of resea...

Hola, After a shockingly bad 15 hour bus journey from Puno along bumpy, dusty tracks, in order to avoid the road block on the main road, we arrived in Cusco, where we had arranged to meed Katie and Emily (two friends from back home). We met up with the girls at the hostel, but seeing as niether Matt nor myself got any sleep on the bus, we both collapsed into bed for a nice long snooze straight away. Once we had been revitalised by some delicious and much needed sleep, we headed into the centr...

Arriving in Cusco it was immediately obvious that it is the most beautiful city we have visited in South America. The architecture is stunning and everything is maintained well and kept clean. The only drawback is the city is kept like this for tourism and everybody is out to sell you something. It´s impossible to walk around the main area of town without having someone run up to you trying to get you into their restaurant or bar, or sell you massages, paintings or tattoo´s. I found it very ...

Back in Cusco...again! I actually have two groups of visitors coming down from The States for vacation. And what better place to show off the culture and scenery of South America than in Cusco and the Sacred Valley of The Inkas? Cusco is packed with adventure and a great place for those with only a short vacation. They each have only 8 or 9 days for the entire trip ...a traveling blink to me....but for them it's all they've got. I have no idea how the working class does it! So I've returned ...

After receiving my Amazsonas refund and partying one last time in La Paz, it was time to catch up with the lads again in Cusco, Peru. I decided to repeat my trick of staying up all night before catching an early morning bus seeing as it had worked so well the last time, but it appears that that may have been a once off as sleep proved elusive on this occasion. Regardless, I traded the noisy, smelly, chaos of Bolivia for the noisy, smelly chaos of Peru, arriving in Cusco where they sell t-shir...