After making the Amazon our home for so long, the Andes mountains which stretches the entire length of South America has become our new home and will continue to be so for the remainder of our time in South America. We will follow these immense mountains for the next few months. And so onto Cusco 11,000ft up in the Andes. Cusco is the nearest town to the most famous archealogical site in South America - Macchu Picchu - and the majority of visitors to the a...

We returned to Arequipa feeling the effects of both the altitude over the last few days and with very aching muscles from all the walking we had done. We decided, therefore, to have a couple of days in Arequipa taking in a few of the local sites and basically chilling out. Apart from the beautiful architecture and the monastery we have already told you about, the main tourist site in the town is to visit Juanita - a young Inca girl who was frozen on mount ...

Just by the fact that there is new postcard on the site you know that we have arrived back safe and sound from the trip to Colca Canyon - though we did have an adventure or two whilst there. There were six of us on the trip, Susana and Juan from Spain and Andy and Rebecca from the UK, together with a local guide, Vlado. The trip was designed to show as much of the local area of interest as possible and this began with a bit of off roading to see some very st...

We arrived in Arequipa (pronounced Ary-Key-Pa) a few days ago, in the early morning, after a 9 hour bus ride from Nazca which took us over and into the the Andes mountains. Thankfully the long distance coaches are very good over here and it is pretty much like travelling in business class - at least you are able to sleep to some extent. Arequipa is the second city of Peru, though after 2 days here we are firmly of the opinion that it should be first. People ...

Many people will have heard of the Nazca lines in Peru, which is the main reason for visiting this town. The bus ride from Ica took about 2 hours, through more desert land and was incredibly warm again as the temperature has once again risen to about 28 degrees centigrade. There is a lot of mystery and speculation about how the Naza lines came into being - from ancient Nazca peoples communications with the gods, to Chris's preferred thoughts that Aliens plan...