Final days in Peru

We’ve now left Peru after a whole month exploring. We explored Arequipa and the nearby Colca Canyon, as well as Puno and Lake Titicaca. 

We arrived in Arequipa early doors after the night bus, where sadly one of the passengers had a heart attack on the bus. We didn’t know he had had a heart attack until he went to hospital on arrival, but he’s doing ok and has headed home to rest up. 

We camped in a hotel garden in Arequipa, setting our tents up for the next three nights. Once I’d had a nap, we went for a little exploration of Arequipa itself. 

It was an early start the next day as we headed to Colca Canyon, one of the deepest canyons in the world. You can also see condors here on a good day. As ever with Peru, there’s also some tacky llamas and men dressed as condors.

With all the recent early starts, and by early I mean 3am starts, it was time for a lie in for our last day. We didn’t get up to too much on the last day other than going to a viewpoint looking over the city. 

The next day we set off for the final stop in Peru, Puno. The town here isn’t particularly interesting, the main reason for coming here is to get on a boat and sail across Lake Titicaca. 

We set sail onto the lake the next morning. Our first stop was the floating islands where locals actually “live”. They definitely used to live there but I’m sceptical if they still do and it’s now just a tourist trap. It was great to see, but it did feel like a constant sales pitch to buy tat. 

We then headed to another island with beautiful views across the lake. 

With that, our time in Peru is over. Peru has been an amazing country to visit. The vastness of the landscape is incredible, one minute you’re in the desert, the next you’re in the mountains. It’s definitely one of my favourite ever countries that I’ve visited.