Paracas is a tiny village on the coast south of Lima, near to Pisco. This is where we did the Ballestas islands (poor man´s galapogas) from. We got on a boat which took us to some small rocky islands with pelicans, cormorants, inca turns, penguins and hundreds and hundreds of sealions - it was a really good morning. Apart from that, there is not too much to do in Paracas. We had a really good, cheap meal there of seafood with free pisco sour which was nice., but...

Had an absolutely amazing time in Lima. We arrived and our hostel, Hotel España, was full of Greek style statues - very random. We had a lovely wander around the old town as our hostel was really near the Plaza de Armas, then had dinner of chicharones - breaded fish. Then went out and drank too much beer and pisco sour. Over the next couple of days we spent a lot of time wandering around Lima, we also took a bus up to San Cristabelle to get an overview of the c...

Arrived in Huaraz after an absolutely hideous night bus journey - i have decided that i never want to travel on one again. Huaraz is a really nice city up in the Andes. We spent a couple of days preparing for our trek and project, then set off. On our first evening camping we went to visit some ruins. the temperature was pleasant, and I remember thinking that the trek wouldnt be so bad. We set off the next morning and had an hour of nice flat trekking before our...

Got a bus to Trujillo where we got a taxi to Huanchaco, which got lost. Got there and had a really nice cheap meal of pasta and garlic bread. The next day we saw our first ruins - Chan Chan, the biggest pre hispanic mud city in the world. I have to say that I was not overly impressed - it was quite interesting and worth seeing, but once you had seen a bit of it youd seen it all. We then went on to the pyramids of the moon and sun. only the moon had been excavated...

So, just spent 2 weeks in Puerto Lopez where we were doing our project work. We got a private bus there which was nice, apart from the fact that there was a landslide along the way so it took 16 1/2 hours instead of 7. This meant that we had to go along a mud road where we got stuck going up the hill and had to get out and push. Oh well. Finally got there and got to our volunteer house - very basic, with concrete floors to sleep on and no hot water. The actual w...