Day 17 - Not much to report today, we had a lazy rest day as we had a free day back in Cusco town again. A group of ten of us went for lunch to Paddy's Bar as a farewell meal to Sue and Edwin who were leaving the trip today, a lovely couple we'll miss them. We had a quick wander around town, I bought a lovely, 100% baby alpaca wool, jumper then we headed back to the hotel. Nigel was a bit better but still not feeling great so we just rested and I got the photos and blog up to date.
Day 18 - we had a long drive day today from Cusco to Puno on the shores of Lake Titicaca. We had an early start leaving at 7am but unfortunately Amber, our Dragoman truck, broke down about three hours drive outside of Cusco. She'd had some major gear work done on her in Cusco whilst we were trekking the Inca Trail but it was obviously not done properly as the clutch failed/burnt out. Vikki and Eoin (our new co crew member) organised a replacement bus for us which took about four hours to arrive from Cusco. A team of four mechanics also arrived after a couple of hours to fix Amber. We all patiently waited in the sun for the replacement bus to arrive. We were supposed to be visiting some ruins, Sillustani ruins near lake Umayo, on the way but had to cancel that visit. We weren't too bothered we've seen lots of ruins although these were pre Inca. It was 8.30pm by the time we reached Puno, all very tired. Luckily Amber was fixed and Eoin arrived with her in Puno around midnight.
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