You may be wondering why I have not done a blog for Guayaquil. Well I will cut straight to the point and tell you that it was a grim place so we got straight the hell out of there. We arrived in the city I still can't pronounce at 9am after a 9 hour bus ride where we crossed the border with relative ease but also had to encounter a random Police search. The first impression of Guayaquil was actually decent they had a cracking bus terminal which reminded me a lot ...

Bread and jam was the free breakfast again, at least it wasn't accompanied by Peach juice and then after a supermarket run we were off to Mancora. The only thing we knew about Mancora was that it had a Loki hostel and was good to party. So we thought we'd have a little party before we crossed the border to Ecuador. It was 19 torturous hours on the bus, mainly because I had one chapter of my book left so that was gone, my battery on my iPod had died and all the m...

We arrived at Lion backpackers shortly after midnight and said goodbye and wished the other Peru Hoppers all the best on their ventures, all but Christina who was stopping in the same hostel as us. Drama struck me straight away as I couldn't find my passport to check-in. My thoughts went back to packing my back at 5.20am in Arequipa drunk. I hadn't needed my documentation since then and the last time I had spotted it was on my bed there, surely I had packed it ha...

It was only a short drive to Paracas, maybe only ninety minutes. But it was enough time for us to have a few beers on the bus. This kind of set the tone for how the night was going to go. It was late evening when we arrived in the small town of Paracas so it was a quick change and then off for dinner. The restaurant was nice, and got even better in my opinion when they gave us a couple of free jugs of a Pisco dink. Cam and I were both craving a Pizza, so natural...

Packing your bag at 5.20am still drunk is probably not the most sensible thing to do in the world. But it was something that needed to be done as the bus was picking us up at 5.30am to go to Huacachina. I felt sure I packed everything and headed down to meet our tour guide for the next few days Diego - who was a doppelganger for Danger Mouse's sidekick Penfold. To my delight we had quite the drive to our first stop the Nazca Lines. This meant I could catch on so...