We set off on a local bus from Potosi. We tourists have seats, but as we head into the wilds of the countryside the bus picks up more and more people and several sit down in the aisle, either on little portable seats or (in the case of local women) on their multicoloured blankets. Real […]
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After our lazy few days in La Paz it is time to join our group trip and depart the busy city. Our itinerary over the next three weeks will take us south through Bolivia into Argentina and Chile, and leave us in Santiago in early July. We booked the trip to enable us to travel […] The bus trip from Copacabana to La Paz is billed as about 4 hours, but made a bit more interesting by having to cross Lake Titicaca by ferry. Unlike most ferry journeys we’ve taken we passengers are ushered to a ferry boat ticket office whilst our bus (and all our luggage) is loaded onto a […] We leave Puno on an early bus and the Andean scenery is just as impressive and even more rural, with locals herding llamas, sheep and pigs against the backdrop of the huge snowy mountains and Lake Titicaca. Little did Paul know, but he’s left his really quite expensive pair of Oakley sunglasses in the hotel […] We’re finally leaving Cusco, and we get fond farewells and hugs from our hostel staff. The bus trip to Puno is a mere seven hours and the mountain scenery is outstanding. We pass herds of llamas and alpacas, blue lakes and snowy mountains. And finally we arrive at the town of Puno on […] For us the visit to Machu Picchu is a essential part of our travels, although we aren’t doing the famous 4-day Inca Trail as you need to book that some months in advance (and we hear it’s also very hard work!). So, on a spare day in Cusco we research our options: we are prepared […] We spend a few days in Cusco between our jungle and Machu Picchu trips. It’s convenient, although exceedingly touristy: everywhere you go in the centre, you are asked if you’d like to buy a painting or a llama hat, or take a picture of a local woman with a baby llama. We are at […] We arrived in Cusco at 5am on the overnight bus. A short taxi journey took us to our hostel, which is attached to a convent, and part of the same building is a girl’s school. They were not at all phased by us checking in at 5:45am, so we went to bed for a couple […] First, an apology to our regular readers: this post is late. The main reason is that the hard disk died on our trusty Sony Vaio netbook, the very machine on which I am typing these words. We use this machine a lot: we move money around with it, keep in touch with family, friends and […] Arequipa is on the altiplano, the largest area of high desert plains in the world. It is overlooked by the snow-covered volcano El Misti, and is called the White City, perhaps because the old city was built from a local white volcanic rock, sillar. Any way up, it’s beautiful, if cold. We are […] |
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