On the gringo trail......

Hola Everyone,

Well what a busy week! Last Tuesday I went mountain biking down the worlds most dangerous road. Its just outside of La Paz and you go from almost 5000m and ride down the mountain on paved (and mostly unpaved) road into the jungle at 1000 and something metres. It was really crazy! As ive never really been mountain biking before it was pretty full on, I stacked it a couple of times, but got back on the bike and kept going. Lots of fun!

We were supposed to leave La Paz on Wednesday but there was a transport strike and road blocks and so we couldnt get out. So we decided to have a chill out day, went and saw a movie and enjoyed La Paz =)

Thursday hopped on a bus to Copacabana, a lovely, chilled out town on Lake Titicaca - the highest navigatable lake in the world at something like 4000m. On Friday we took a boat trip out on the lake to Isla del Sol (Island of the sun) and trekked from one side to the other. It was a great trek and the views were amazing!

Saturday we left Copacaban and Bolivia behind - and travelled to Peru! We stayed in Puno the night, which is also on Lake Titicaca. Sunday we took a local boat and visited the floating islands - islands made entirely of reeds floating on the lake where people live in houses made of reeds. Very cool. We then vistited another island on the lake and stayed the night with a local family. We also partook in a bit of traditional dancing which was fun!!

Yesterday we visited one of the other islands on Lake Titicaca and had a beautiful sunny day. Lovely! In the afternoon we got back into Puno and then hopped on a bust to Cusco - tourist central. Got into Cusco 2am this morning! Today just wandered around Cusco and checked out the city. Its nice but very touristy as all people visiting Machu Pichu use Cusco as a base.

Well im off tommorrow on a 4 day mountain biking and jungle trek to Machu Pichu! Should be really fun! Unfortunately I cant put pics from the last week on this computer but next time I promise lots of pics from Lake Titicaca and Machu Pichu!!!