We are knackered! But we made it back in time to wish Stephen and Chris a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY! No longer teenagers eh?! What is the world comin to?! - we would tell you to have a pint or two for us, but we don´t think you need any encouragement! (drunkards) Hope you are both havin a great day cos we certainly did! Have been trekking up bloody great mountains again! Up at 6.30am to catch a 3 1/2 hour bus/car journey to the start of a climb that exceeded 1000 met...

Andy is getting electric shocks from the camera and is getting freaked out by it.... (weirdo!!!)Well, we´ve had a really cool and slightly scary 24hrs! Remember we told you that it was Micheal´s (the hotel owner) birthday yesterday? Well we unsuspectingly got ourselves invited to his birthday dinner! Clara, his wife, had cooked a meal for about 20 of their Spanish relatives, and we were ushered in to join them - we didn´t really know what we wer...

Happy birthday Alan, hope you´re having a great day! Enjoy the delights of Stayley Vegas tonight! We are enjoying similar weather to you if not similar scenary - it´s raining here! Can´t bloody escape the stuff!We have made it to Huaraz, despite a bloody uncomfortable bus journey last night - we are still aching! THE JOURNEY Took 10hrs - thankfully it didn´t feel like it cos we were drifting in and out of sleep. It seemed like it would be ...

We made it! We are in Trujillo at the mo, moving onto Huaraz tomorrow hopefully. There´s not much to say about Peru as yet, except that it´s mostly desert here in the North! And Piura is THE HOTTEST PLACE ON EARTH!We have managed to stomach two massive bus journeys - 7hrs over the border, and 8hrs from Piura to Trujillo - without incident and without sickness thank god! We are going slightly mental due to lack of physical exercise - since hiking our s...

Piura - hot and sweaty and lots of fast food outlets!The most hectic place on earth (atleast it felt like it after Vilcabamba) where the taxis try and flag YOU down!Thank god for cable tv!