Ah Puerto López. I think we only planned to stay a day but this is our fourth. The main attraction was the whales. We went on a $40 whole day trip. We left Puerto López in the morning by boat with two guides and about 10 other people. half way through our journey we saw them. There were 3 humpbacks playing in water. Unfortunately they didn't do any of the jumps we'd seen in photos but it was nonetheless pretty damn cool. The boat took us to Isla de la Plata wh...

Our Montañita experience was short but sweet enough. Unfortunately the sun we'd gone in search of was non existent. It was still warm enough to walk around in shorts, tshirts and flip flops but it was almost constantly slightly spitting and cloudy. We arrived in the afternoon and found a place to stay then went for food followed by cheap caipirinhas and aislinn tried to teach me to play pool in an empty bar. We slept under mosquito nets for the first time (nowhe...

Well it was a bit of a marathon journey from Chachapoyas. An overnight bus got us to Chiclayo at about 4.40am where we got a taxi to another bus company and boarded a 5am bus to Piura. In Piura we stopped for breakfast whilst we aited to board the bus all the way to Guayaquil. Arriving in Guayaquil was a real shock. It was the most ridiculously posh bus terminal we've ever seen. And we've been to alot. None of the usual noise and dingyness, this place was pure l...

Well it was one hell of a long journey from Lima to Chachapoyas. Luckily the bus was fairly comfy and fairly empty so we had a fairly good nights sleep but the journey in the daytime was awful. The air conditioning wasnt working so it was unbearably hot. So hot there were two americans throwing up all day. They were the wife and daughter of a baptist missionary form Mississippi. They were moving to Chachapoyas for a year (on the bus, they had huge amounts of lugg...

Not much to say really except we don't like it! Lima is a dull city. Its huge, sprawling, cold, foggy, dirty, polluted, full of cars. I know that sounds a bit like London or a whole load of other cities we've been to but it lacks the charm and magic that makes all that ok. Not even being by the sea can redeem it. We're staying at the point again which is nice but in order to get to the center we're forced to take a taxi or spend 1 hour on the bus! We're keen to g...