We arrived into Arequipa after the worst sleep on the nightbus - the road was so bumpy and so windy ... it didn't matter the bus was super awesome and comfy - sleep was just not going to happen! So, we all took the morning pretty slowly - ie we slept. We had the afternoon to explore this gorgeous city though. I really love these Andean cities, their style is still quite colonial so there are some amazing streets, building and churches but also - it's all set wit...

Since none of us decided to do the flight Martin just took us around to some Peruvian type things he thought we might enjoy. The first of which was a place where they make replica traditional pre-Inca pottery. We had a demonstration of how and why the pottery was made and I started to truly understood the power of 'context'! I actually understood a very limited amount of what they man was saying, because I knew what he was kind of talking about. Luckily - Marti...

We travelled down the coast of Peru and I'm still so gutted that my camera is broken because again, there are so many amazing things that you see, just outside the bus window as you travel. Coastal Peru truly is a desert, the sand dunes go forever and there are also a lot of mines and therefore we saw a lot of little shanty-looking mine towns on the way ... I don't know why but they really fascinated me. I'd love to know how those people live, there really was ...

Everyone says, Busing in South America is an experience - they weren't wrong! We had to catch three different buses from Cuenca to get to Lima (change in Huaquillas (Ec) and Piura (Pe)) and the total trip ended up taking up 29 hours! It was, crazy to say the least. I love busing Ecuadorian style, it certainly is nothing fancy, often cramped and sometimes a bit warm, the roads are also rather bumpy but the tunes are generally pumping and I also love how random...