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 socks off in Vilcabamba´s glorious surroundings we have been confined to either city limits or a bus seat - ARRGGGGGGHHHHH! We were so needy, that, sad people that we are, we set up a mini circuit training session in our hostel room last night!!! (Emma was right!) Hopefullly Huaraz, back in the Andes, will offer more hiking and outdoor activities - we need a bloody long walk!

Piura was so hot - we were constantly dripping with sweat the whole time we were there, not fun. It was also completely devoid of any fun things to do and consisted mainly of mental taxi drivers and other automobiles intent on running you over (we thought that black and white lines on the road meant pedestrian crossing?! -evidently not!) and MILLIONS of fast food joints. The bus company we went with to get here was good tho - very efficiant and professional - just don´t ever watch Babel whilst driving through the desert on a tourist bus - it´s not to be advised! (a women gets shot on a tourist bus whilst driving through the desert - it´s a bag of laughs!)

We had lots of fun last night cos we managed to successfully block the toilet - poo water smells!!!! It wasn´t our fault - they usually put a bin by the loo for loo paper, but they hadn´t, so we assumed, incorrectly, that we could put it in the bog - it came back to haunt us for several hours. We got scared, and rather than do the the sensible thing and tel the owner, we flushed for dear life! THANKFULLY god was on our side and the loo finally emptied - honest to god we´ve never been more relieved!!! We won´t be doing anything bigger than a wee in that loo for our own safety!

We walked around the town yesterday - it is nice and open compared to Piura, but not an awful lot to see. We are staying at a place called Casa de Clara, which is owned by a football mad Brummie called Micheal, who is super intellegent regarding all things archelogical and gave us an info-loaded tour of the nearby Mocha pyramids of the Sun and Moon earlier today. The Mocha painted lots of weird stuff on the walls of their tombs etc. and constantly built over everything - some of the sights were pretty impressive. They were a blood thirsty bunch tho - they sacrified a fair few thousand people - weird to think all those people were killed there - spooky!

Anyway, as we said, we are moving on tomorrow - hopefully to greener pastures!