Ok well today was a really crazy day. It started off with me planning on leaving Ica and going to Lima with Nick and Naomi but in the end I overheard a guy called dean talking about doing some volunteer work in the earthquake hit area of Pisco. I made the decision to go and do something useful for a few days and help out with the earthquake relief project. So without any real idea of what we were getting ourselves into, we headed to the bus station and got a bus ...

9th Aug I got up at 6am and caught a táxi to paraccas which is where the islã del ballestas are. Supposedly it is the poor mans Galapagos islands. Well this man is very poor! We were taken out on a speed boat to the islands. The number of birds were pretty amazing to be fair and I was pretty surprised now to be pooed on. This guy nick I went with got pooed on twice. Pretty lucky you could say. We also got to see penguins, sea lions, fish and dolphins. It was a...

8th AugThe bus finally arrives at Ica and I decided to head straight out to the desert oasis of Huacachina. I got this 3 wheeler taxi to the hostel, got ripped off by 5 soles and finally check into the hostel and find it has a swimming pool. Im in heaven! I grabbed some lunch down by the lake and bumped into this guy H that we had met back in Bolivia and so hung out with him by the pool all afternoon. I booked myself onto the eat as much as you can bbq at the ho...

31st AugWe woke up, grabbed the usual breakfast roll and jam and headed out to book onto our trips. We managed to book the rafting and then had to head out to the local bus station for our tickets to this random place on the way to macchu picchu. On arriving at the bus station we did have second thoughts about doing it this way but thought we might as well have a bit of an adventure. So we booked tickets for that evening and went back into town. We managed to fin...