See It Do It Live It

When we arrived in Lima, there was a major mix up with the hostel and they didn’t have enough beds for us. We had paid in advance and it was going to be tricky for us to find anything near by at the last minute so we insisted that the hostel staff fixed the problem for us. They were suitably embarassed and offered to make some pisco sours while we waited. Lima was positively topical in comparison to Cuzco and Puno, so we put dresses on and sat outside in…read more

When in Rome…you do whatever the Romans do. When in South America, you visit the Amazon. Nine countries share the Amazon rainforest, and 13% of it is in Peru. We flew to Puerto Maldonado where we were met by our guide Esau. We were then taken to a boat which would carry us towards our lodge, on the banks of Lake Sandoval. While on the boat, Esau told us a bit about himself. We were incredibly lucky to have a guide with excellent English who also absolutely loves wildlife and…read more

From La Paz, we travelled over the border into Peru and stopped at the town of Puno on the shores of Lake Titicaca. We were lucky to make it at all in fact due to Graham’s phone changing to Peruvian time while we were waiting on a connecting bus on the Bolivian side of the border. The main attraction in Puno are the floating islands in Lake Titicaca. The closest ones to the city are the Uros islands, of which there are 42, inhabited by the Uru people. The islands…read more