We came here for one purpose only and that was to see those weird and wonderful lines in the desert. The only way to see them though is by plane because they are soooo big!! So we had breakfast at the hotel drew some dollars out of the ATM and got all excited for our trip. Pete sat next to the pilot because he had the longest legs much to the rest of the travellers horror as he desperately wanted to push all the buttons. He kept turning round exclaiming a...

Here we are in Pisco, home of Pete's new favourite drink, the Pisco Saur. Even better than Margharitta's and beyond the dreams of daquaris. The place is small but with plenty to do just like Baños! We went out into the desert out of town into the deepest darkest Peru. Try your hand at sandboarding someone said, it's easy they said, the drive out there is nice they said. OK! off we went for basically a rally event across the desert being driven by a ma...

From little seaside resorts to the bright lights of Peru's capital city. Where do the other tourists hide that's what we want to know because the whole time we were there we hardly saw any¡ Initially our tour guide put the fear of God in us and told us not to stray from the beaten path etc etc to the point we thought that these city living Peruvians must be on the verge of a cumulative psychosis. Happily the contrary we discovered to be the case. Pos...

Our tour guide decided that Trejillo was actually a bit too dodgy for us to stay in so decided we should go a little outside town to the beach at Huanchaco. Good call!! The hostal was lovely and our room had sea views, how very cosmopolitan of us!! The transport however was less so with 21 passengers packed into the back of some local's van! Safe? er no!! Fun? well, funny! There is loads of history in Peru, you fall over it wherever you go. The two...

Off to find Padington bear in deepest darkest Peru!! Crossing the border between Ecuador and Peru was certainly a deep and dark experience that much we can say. Pete broke the passport controllers machine and the bus we were on was adament they were leaving us behind because they had a schedule to keep!! Lots of excitable Spanish was spoken by all parties until someone had the brain wave to process his passport manually. Thank God! The place was not a ni...