Safe and sound and now to catch up on some serious sleep, thank you to all who have followed our little trip and for the comments and emails received. Michael and Jeff [View Full Entry]

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We caught a Taxi out to the airport around 3 hours before our flight left which left us plenty of time to book in. The flight to Santiago (Chile) was good and we had a 6 hour stop over to kill time. Not much to do in an airport for six hours but to play cards, eat, talk and duty free shopping. We both decided to buy some "Pisco" (rum) so we could make Pisco Sour back in Australia; we also brought a few other knick knacks. The flight to New Zealand was around 12 hours and we both slept for [View Full Entry]

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Today was our last day at the lodge, we were all up at 6:00am and went bird watching in the lagoon behind the lodge the same spot were we went Caiman spotting last night. The Irish girls didn’t turn up this morning as they did the tribal medicine thing (Shamanism) where you hallucinate from this drink that comes from some Jungle tree, it take the evil spirits out let's you see back in your past, see into your future, shows all the good and bad you have done and cleansers your soul. (Look it up in Google and have a read) [View Full Entry]

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Forgot to mention we had golden catfish for lunch and chicken for dinner last night. Didn’t get that much sleep as I’m a light sleeper, it was due to frogs and other jungle critters (should have stuck my ear plugs in) Jeff snored all night and couldn’t wake him, wrist still burning . . . bloody ant. We were up for breaky around 6.00am where we had a feed of two bread rolls, jam and some omelette that had potato in it which was nice and some fresh local purple fruit juice and a coffee. After breakfast we were off to [View Full Entry]

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We were picked up by Mini Bus and then went and waited and waited for these other two girls who were also going with us to the lodge, the guide said they were just finishing breakfast, Yeh right, know women, they would still be pampering themselves as 2 minutes is 5 and 5 is 10. Sure enough we were right, these couple of girls were Irish around mid twenties and had the lipstick, eyeliner, hair done the works. . Come on girls we are heading to the jungle not the plaza! We introduced ourselves and we were off to have a [View Full Entry]

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This is my third attemp at updating due to losing everything twice..Grr This morning we decided to catch a bus to Cusco from Ollantaytambo because the Café and Pizza lady said it was easy to do, who were we to argue with them. We packed up our gear and headed around the back of this shed to find many 10 seater buses ready to go in all different directions, we were looking for a bus that would take us to “Urambamba” from there we need to catch another bus to “Cusco” via “Chinchero” straight away this fellow was calling out “Urambamba” [View Full Entry]

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This morning we woke at 4.30 to get our train to Agua Caliente which is far as you can go before Machu Picchu and is only accessible by train or by foot. Couldnt have a shower as they turn of all water late at night and not sure what time they turn it back on. We took the back packers carriage up there which fine, just like a normal carriage no ducks or chickens racing up and down the aile like I had thought. We could´nt see much at 5:30am but what I could see it was very good scenic 1:30 [View Full Entry]

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we took one last look around Arequipa this morning before heading back to Annas. Both jeff and myself think Arequipa is great and would like to have maybe spent one more day here and spent a little more time discovering this fine old city. You can walk everywhere and once again felt safe at night. we only got asked twice if we wanted to buy any drugs but we thought nothing of it as you get this back at home. we got back to Annas just in time to catch our Taxi to the airport which is about 15 minutes out [View Full Entry]

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We headed out of cusco to a little town called pisac around 1 half hours away by our mini bus and we also found another aussie to talk to as he was from swan hill and has been traveling for 3 months throughout south america and still has another 3 months to go before heading back to Oz. We arrived at the pisac ruins and got a very good heads up by our Tour guide "Marc Anthony" (his spanish name none of us could pronounce) of the incas and how they built and survived for just over 100 years, (Jeff and [View Full Entry]

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There has been a strike here in Peru (Cusco area) now for over a week, they are not letting any buses in and out of Cusco and have blocked all major roads with rocks and whatever ever else they could find, we only found out a few days ago about this, as our bus trip to Cusco was for today. We really didn´t have much of an option but to fly to Cusco from Arequipa as they did have direct flights, but this wasn´t going to work either as they were totally booked out. Other option was to fly back to [View Full Entry]

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