Baggot’s on Tour 2025

An overnight bus from Cusco, and we arrive in a beautiful colonial city, Arequipa,  overlooked by three gigantic snow-capped volcanoes. We’ve seen our fair-share of towns with volcanoes, but this city was truly spectacular with its many pristine-white buildings made of volcanic-ash.  We wandered the streets, visited the cafes and restaurants and made use of our accommodations beautiful garden and pool!  Next stop, the Colca Canyon…

We left Aguas Calientes in a rather bedraggled state after our dose of food poisoning but we had to leave as we had purchased non-refundable PeruRail tickets. What should have been an incredible journey was definitely not as brown paper-bags were being  filled 🤮 throughout as one of the world’s most scenic rail routes passed us by! 😳 poor people around us, we apologise and hope we didn’t spoil the view! Finally we arrived at our next stop in a little mountain village called Ollantaytambo, where on arrival the poor hoteliers wondered what on earth had arrived! We all looked terrible, and all apart from John were collapsed in the courtyard - what an entrance! As we have learned throughout our journey, when you look like you need help it is so often immediately offered and this lovely family were no different. Out came the medicinal drinks, advice and a helping hand with our gear to our ‘recovery’ room where we collapsed for the afternoon. Spending the last ounce of energy Dadd...