Day 20: Arrive in Areuipa, Mummy of Juanita and giant convent.Arequipa is Peru?s secod ciy home to just over 1 million people it is flanked by several large volcanoes, one of which is snow capped. The cities main attraction is the mummy Juanitia, found within the last 20 years on top of one of the tallest volcanoes in the area. She was an Inca sacrifice and was very well reserved by he freezing temperatures.The most likely explanation for her sacrifice was to app...

Day 12 Bus to trojillo was a bit of a nightmare, if only I'd been sleeping. People getting on and off all night and incredibly painful sun burn on my legs. But we arrived early morning and headed to the beach resort of Huanchaco, of course it's winter here and being a couple of hundred miles down the coast it was really cold! Day 13 Trujillo is a fairly large town with several important archeological sites in it's area. We started the day with a trip to...

Day 4: Long trek in the Jungle for 8 hours followed by caymen spotting from a canoe.The jungle trek was amazing, we saw monkey, birds and lots of creepy crawly type things. The most fun bit of the trek was the fact that we were clambering up muddy paths falling over each other, generally laughing for hours. We eat lunch sitting on a fallen over tree with ants everywhere: be proud, I didn?t even squirm once! Our trusty local guide Bolivar looked after us with a hu...