Exploring Cusco, Peru

Our walking tour of Cusco began with a short walk up to the market of San Pedro. At the market, Rom, our guide took time to show us some of the more unusual items to be found in the market, along with items that we may want to take home, like Peruvian chocolate etc. We […]

Lake Titicata

After a quiet but pleasant evening in our hotel on the banks of Lake TIticata, we met our new local guide Jose, and boarded a private luxury speedboat for our day exploring Lake Titicata and the historic floating islands. Lake Titicata is the highest navigational lake in the world and is absolutely huge. It spans […]

Colossal Colca Canyon

From Arequipa we took a very scenic coach journey into the mountains and volcanoes, gradually increasing in altitude by the minute! The views were tremendous and the higher we go the more remote it became. We passed 11000 feet and paused for a comfort stop and to try some traditional Inca tea- which is essentially […]

Awesome Arequipa

Our day started early as we had an early transfer to Lima airport for our internal flight to Arequipa. The journey to the airport reinforced the idea that Lima is NOT somewhere I’d want to drive myself around! The traffic and tooting of one’s horn rivalled Delhi! Still, we arrived in one piece and were […]

Lovely Lima

Our journey to Peru, travelling on a an escorted tour with Great Rail Journeys began early on Wednesday morning. As our ‘meet and greet’ was scheduled for 0320am from Heathrow terminal 5, we made the decision to stay overnight at the Sofitel hotel which is connected to the terminal. We met Bill, our tour manger […]