World challenge 2016

We're in Peru!

Hey everyone, we have arrived safely and have settled into our first home stay. We have just had breakfast and are currently meeting our in-country-agent to find out how we're getting to Cusco tomorrow morning. We were all pretty exhausted from four consecutive flights and 23 hours of flying, but after some sleep the 14 tired teenagers are now 14 much-less-tired teenagers.

Cuddling lambs in Cusco

Hey just arrived in Cusco this morning. Everyone's loving it here, booked into our hostel which is really cute. Cuddled some baby lambs and going to spend the rest of the day organising our acclimatisation treks which start tomorrow and then exploring the streets. Here's some photos from the end of our time in Lima and our flight to Cusco. We will post some crazy photos of cusco later. Gotta go lots of hectic things to do

Adios xoxo

Hiking 

Sacsayhuaman

Hey guys! We're in Cusco at the moment which is awesome. Today Imogen took us on a tour of the town which included walking through some local markets which were super colourful and amazing. Then we hiked up towards Sacsayhuaman and finished at the statue of Jesus overlooking Cusco. The view was beautiful. We've also seen a ridiculous amount of llamas and alpacas (including baby ones, which some of us had thought were baby lambs originally!!) in the past few days which everyone is very happy about. Tomorrow we will be hiking to an even higher altitude in preparation for our main trek, which we will be starting in a few days.

Buenas noches!

Peruvian adventures in happy pants

Hola everybody!!! We have spent today hiking from Tambomachay (Incan baths) through Sacsayhuaman (an Incan fortress) then back to our accommodation in Cusco (just over 8kms). It had such amazing views and the weather was incredible AND WE SAW OUR FIRST LLAMAS! Tonight we had a surprise dinner for Gretel's birthday, we gave her a pair of honorary 'happy pants' and a (surprise) cheesecake that was divine. Early night for us all because some of us were falling asleep at the table. We have all been coping really well with the altitude and having an amazing time. Tomorrow we are having a rest day and exploring the massive city even more. Looking forward to all our Peruvian adventures in happy pants. Have a groovy time in Australia everyone and we will see you all soon.

Chao compadres

from Kellie Catanese and Gretel Edwards