We're still in Nazca after a couple of busy days. On the 5th we arranged to visit the famous Nazca Lines. We worked out with the help of the lady from the Nazca Lodge (our hostel) that the best way to do this is to get a taxi. The alternative is to take a flight over the lines but with 4 plane crashes last year and many dead tourists we decided against that option. For 70 Soles (about £16) we could get the taxi driver to take us both to the Maria Reich Museum, t...

So we've arrived in nazca and not before time. Lima was grey, cold and oppressive and I'm not really a city person anyway. Having said that we went on a really good bus tour the second afternoon which took us to some old colonial parts of the city, which should be avoided at all costs at night, but are beautiful by day. The city was huge and the tour took 3 hours on an open top bus with biting windchill but it was worth it. We also visited the Cathedral of St Fra...