This trip was our honeymoon, and it was amazing. From the moment we met our guide Yohn on day one (we were late due to the wedding) to the final day in Lima we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. This was due to the amazing activities and fascinating locations and extensive coordination and efforts of our guide(s) to make all the moving pieces come together - no small feat with a multi-national group bouncing (hiking, biking, kayaking, bussing and flying) around the mountains and cities and lakes of Peru. Our hike up the Lares Trail was perhaps our favorite part, and the surprise of a wedding cake after breakfast, baked in a tent by our cooks/porters way up in the mountains of Peru above the clouds and out in the middle of NOWHERE, was one of the highlights of the trip and just a small indicator of the efforts made behind the scenes by our guides, porters and cooks to make the trip truly special. Other highlights of the trip for us include the excursion into the jungle, Machu Picchu of course, visiting the floating Islands on Lake Titicaca, and then meeting and staying in a local home on one of the islands of the lake. Then there were the small things that we'll remember that can't be adequately described in any brochure, like meeting and seeing the children on the mountain as we hiked the Lares Trail, standing in the pitch dark on the island under a vast blanket of stars and seeing the Southern Cross for the first time, leaning out of the canoe to watch the piranhas feed on a piece of bread (and fingers!) in the water, tasting Alpaca in a delicious mushroom gravy, smelling the humid aroma of the jungle in the darkest dark of night as we hiked with our flashlights, walking through the farm in the jungle and tasting fruits we'd never even new existed, sitting on the top of the slowest boat on the PLANET as we made our way through the reeds and islands of Lake Titicaca, experiencing all of this with a truly fascinating group of people from all over the world and so many more small things that we will remember for the rest of our lives.

| January 1970