Tuesday, 2 Jun 2009 | Views [505]
Cusco is 3,500 km above sea level and a great place to prepare your body for the dizzy heights of the Inca Trail. We had allowed ourselves four days to acclimatise, which was just as well. By this time I had a really bad back and was wondering if I was ... Read more >
Tuesday, 26 May 2009 | Views [463]
Even though it only felt like five minutes ago that we`d embarked from a plane, after two nights in Lima it was time to catch a flight to Arequipa, to begin our acclimatisation to being at altitude. Arequipa is a beautiful little town, its colonial ... Read more >
Saturday, 23 May 2009 | Views [551]
Getting from Auckland, New Zealand to Lima in Peru was an endurance test that even the most hardened marathon runner would have struggled with. It started with an eight hour overnight flight to LA. We then had ten hours to wait in LA for a flight to ... Read more >
