Well after yet another bus ride (this time 11 hours) we have made our way from the sand city of Ica to Arequipa. First impressions of the last few days-desert..f***ing hot, sand, and oasis, I never thought Peru had this and what do you do in the desert apart from scoarching in the heat...sandboarding at Huacachina (8km from Ica). Shaz and Rowan you will be happy to note that I gave it a try, not too succesfully as there are no chairlifts so it is a matter of...

Finally we have arrived. After a horrendously long long flight. Well seeing though we had very little sleep on the flight and we arrived in Lima at midnight, we crashed and awoke at a reasonable hour to be insinc with local time hence no jet lag between us!! Lima is how the guide books describe it... smoggy. We are staying in the very nice part of town right on the Pacific ocean so we do have a nice sea breeze coming through. The region we are stayin...