Lake Titicaca was really great, also the City around, Puno, is not that nice. In the evening of the day we visited the lake, we took a bus towards Cuzco, where we arrived at around 5am in the morning. Like everywhere as soon as we entered the bus terminal tons of people came to us asking if we would like to stay in their hostel or hotel, about an hour later, we made then our finally decision and went with Juri a really nice guy to his hostel, we had 2 nice little rooms for 13 soles a night, what is about 2,50 euros.
The first thing in the morning for us was then finding out about the different options we have to visit Macchu Picchu, the great Inka City up in the mountains. Juri explaint us everything, it was just great, to make sure so that we will get the best prize we went in the City to check different travel agencies, after it was sunday we also got a better inside in Peruvian traditions, they had like a little sundays parade festival at the market place, after we finished our research we sat down in one of the little coffeeplaces balconies and enjoyed watching what was going on at the market. Afterwards we booked our trips for the next days, that also meant saying by to some good friends, Lucie and Franzi were going to take another trail then Amanda and me. The rest of the day we enjoyed hanging around the City, which is really beautiful and in the evening we even got the chance to meet up with our friends from Spain and Sweden and Maria and Chris again. 4 o'clock in the morning we said a last goodbye to the girls who left for their trip and then our trip already started as well.Amanda and me had decided to do a 3 days trip and fly out of Cuzco on the fourth.
The first day started, we got picked up by a bus and drove to a place to pick up others, meet our guia Marco Antonio and get some bikes. When this was done the trip could really start, we drove about 2 hours up into the mountains and arriving there we decided the best thing to do would be put on more clothes, it was soooo freezing. Then ready to rock, everybody got onto a bike and they way down started, after about an hour we made a lunch break with a beautiful view and then went on, it was really great, the sun , the mountains, just everything... In the evening then we drove by bus to another town to stay there over night, I got a bit sick of that ride so and went kind of straight to bed to be fit for the next morning. We got up kind of early and had a nice breakfast and then starting hiking, the first view hours were really nice along waterfalls and through the countryside after lunchbreak so, we had to walk a view hours straight over train tracks, but didnt matter, when it started raining we could finally try out our ponchos, looking totally ridiculous so :D On that hike I also got a chance to talk with our Guide Willian a bit more and hear more about life in Peru. In the evening we were very happy when we finanlly arrived at the hostel, we were a bit afraid, cause everybody who had been there had told us, they had the worst hostel ever there, but surprisingly we got one of the bests we had throughout our whole journey through Peru. This evening Amanda didnt feel so good from the hike, so we decided after we both werent really fit, we will take the bus in the morning up to Macchu Picchu instead of hiking. After a bit of trouble with getting up at 4 in the morning, we took a bus at 5 and met the others right in front of the gate up on top and were even fast enough to catch a ticket to hike up wayna picchu, because only 400 people a day are allowed to go up there, to keep it saver. 
The first 2 hours up there we had a guide showing us everything and explaining todos. It was really impressive. We also saw the sun rise over the mountains soooooooo nice. Around 10 am then, we just relaxed in the sun, which was another weird point after everybody hd told us the days before they were up there and it was pooring rain, anyways I convinced Amanda to do the hike up Wayna Picchu, we took our time and made stopps all few minutes, but at the end it was really worth it, we had a totally amazing view all around and towards Macchu Picchu. 
Around 3 or 4 in the afternoon, we took another bus back down to the village, had some lunch and catched our train back towards Cuzco, where we spent the night and got up early to leave for the airport, but thats a totally different story again, I will tell soon. Besos
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