(The Salt Desert, Bolivia, 5-7th of November 2017)
We were quite happy when we after a two night stay could pack our things and prepare to leave Uyuni. We walked down to the travel agency were we met our guide and the other participants. Our backpacks were stoved on the roof of the jeep and we travelled five of us in every vehicle together with a guide and a driver.
(Uyuni, Bolivia, 4-5th of November 2017)
Our stay in La Paz was really short. At 5.30 in the morning we took a taxi to the airport to fly south to Uyuni, the only place we planned to visit in Bolivia.
Uyuni is a small and modest town in the middle of the desert and it looks a bit like a forgotten dusty town from “the Wild West”. Our hostel was a clean but kind of ugly place, the peak of that stay was a fantastic breakfast with pancakes, good bread and fruit.
To find a restaurant with descent food was not that easy in Uyuni. We had our first meal in a restaurant where they did not have a menu and they only spoke Spanish. We ordered their daily dish, a three coarse meal with soup, chicken and dessert. A really good meal it turned out.
In the evening we found a restaurant (with a menu) with a mix of pizza, traditional Bolivian food and Korean food.
The rest of our stay in Uyuni we spent buying a lot of water and snacks to bring along on the trip we had booked through the Salt desert.
(La Paz, Bolivia, 3-4th of November 2017)
We headed east with a bus-company called “Bolivia Hop”, on a trip that crosses the border between Peru and Bolivia. As long as we were in Peru we travelled with a rather luxury bus. When we got to the border we had to take our luggage and walk across the border.
(Puno, Peru, 31st of October – 3rd of November 2017)
Next stop Puno, a small town right beside Lake Titicaca. Christel had read that there would be a folklore festival in Puno the first week of November – however, if there was one we did not see any of it…. But we were there for Halloween and that was amazing. Thousands of people were out in the streets in the city centre and a lot of them were dressed up in Halloween costumes.
(Arequipa, Peru 30-31:th of October 2017)
After being in the middle of nowhere just outside Arequipa we decided to move in to town and we ended up in a very nice hotel in the city center with a stunning view from the breakfast restaurant at the roof.
(Arequipa, Peru, 28-30th of October 2017)
When we booked the hotel in Arequipa we had an idea that we should stay outside the town for a couple of days to get some nice days rest. The taxi driver at the airport looked a bit strange at us when we showed him the address to the hotel and asked why we had decided to stay there in the middle of nowhere…
When we got there we understood what he meant. It is a nice hotel but it is in the middle of nothing. At first it seemed as we were the only guests but during the day some more people showed up.
The hotel was really fancy with a pool, a gym and a nice garden. But there were no restaurants around! We finally found one but could not understand the menu and gave up. Fortunately the food in the restaurant of the hotel turned out to be amazing and we enjoyed some really good meals there.
The pool area was a disappointment. Yes, it was nice and clean, there were sun beds but… there were also loads of sand flies! Christel got a lot of bites during her half hour session by the pool.
(Cusco, Peru, 25-27th of October 2017)
We really enjoyed to spend some more time in Cusco after being at Machu Picchu.
(Machu Picchu, Peru, 24-25th of October 2017)
As we decided to get to Machu Pichi the ”comfortable way” we started with taking a taxi to the train station right outside the city center in Cusco. The train then took 3,5 hours and the ride took us between high mountains and along beautiful rivers.
(Cusco, Peru, 21-24th of October 2017)
Whe got back to Lima from Huaraz by bus really early in the morning and from there we got on a flight to Cusco. From Cusco you can easily travel to Machu Picchu and it is also situated in the Sacred Valley were you can find a lot of Inca ruins. We had not planned how to get to Machu Picchu when we got to Peru but after Christels experiences from our hike to Laguna 69 we decided we did not want to do a 5 days long trek so we decided on the other (and only ) available option, to go by train. 
(Huaraz, Peru, 17-21st of October 2017)
As we did not enjoy Lima that much we only stayed for two nights and then got on the bus to Huaraz. We really liked that bus with seats you could recline totally, a stewardess giving us blankets, pillows and food. And all seats are equipped with a screen where you could watch movies ! We really got to like Cruz del sur´s buses!
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