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...

The four hundred and seventy one kilometre journey to Arequipa took us ten hours by bus and we arrived as the sun was rising at 5.30am. The bus was fine, watched snatch and fell asleep I did wish that Peru hop would arrive at places later so you had chance of a bit more kip but luckily the hostel we were staying at was able to check us in straight away so we could nod off some more. The hostel we were staying at was The Wild Rover. The Wild Rover had a particular...