Reached Cusco (Peru) just before mid night local time last night after a long day on many buses. Got the local bus to Copacabana where we lunched on local trout from Lake Titicia. Yumm! From there booked the `tourist` bus across the border from Bolivia all the way to Cusco ... big mistake. We should have just booked to Puno and then sorted another local bus ourselves to Cusco. After we crossed the border (which is not very border like!), back onto the bus where the tourist agent informed us there was a strike and we wouldn´t be able to get a bus from Puno to Cusco until 8pm that night or 8 am in the morning. The strike was ONLY during daylight hours lucky for us - ya right?? Also LUCKY for us he could organise us a tour on the lake during the extra 6 hour wait we had for a SPECIAL price and even LUCKIER again he could arrange accomodation in Cusco for when we arrived. Lets rush out and do the lotto ... how lucky are we NOT. Anyways we decided not to take any of the above options and miracously just before we hit Puno he told us we could get a normal ie local bus to Cusco immediately but it would take an hour longer. Dunno what happened the strike etc but we got the local bus ... which was very local ... but did the job and got us here to Cusco.
Stayed in a cheapo hostel that touted us at the bus station. The lady was lovely, the room was ensuite and had cable tv etc but was very basic with the hardest bed I have evcer slept in. Seriously I think it was a sheet on concrete. Tonight we´re staying in a lovely place off San Blas called Koyllur (about 70 soles for the `confidential`price which we got when we started to walk off). Its awesome compared to last night so think we will spend the afternoon watching tv and sleeping!
Tomorrow we fly to Puerto Maldonado which is in the amazon jungle just west of the peru/bolivia border. On monday we head to the jungle for 2 weeks volunteer work in the Tambopata. Check it out here http://www.tambopataexpeditions.com/ and we´ll chat to ye all when we get back!!
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