Smiling you bet. The weather gods were with us today. Today was our second day in Paracas and after leaving the Hilton early we headed out to the Ballestas islands. The islands are situated off the coast of the Paracas Reserve, Peru's largest coastal wildlife sanctuary. The amazing islands are home to thousands of migratory sea birds. You have to wear a hat , no guessing why... Some of the different birds there were pelicans, Humboldt penguins, huge sea lions ...

Today we left our hotel in Lima for a night away. We hoped on a really nice bus, it had leather recliner seats with on board entertainment!. The road trip from Lima to Paracas took 4 hours. We travelled through mostly desert areas with some river valleys and areas that had crops. There where many shanty looking towns along the way. It is hard to imagine so many people living in single room 'houses' with no electric, running water etc. We saw many areas that whe...

just a quick note while we finish off our Shivers. We didn´t go for our flight over nazca today because of the weather. We are going tomorrow all going well. So today just lazed around our 5 star lol..... this place is out of here. oh i think we have seen some famous people at the pool too.... mm famous here anyway. We had the most amazing dinner tonight and I have to tell you the famous drink of Peru - the Piscoe Sour has a great kick. Ray had a second huge on...

Who is the guy in the picture? This is the nice guy who we could barely understand who showed us our new camera. Luckily we knew all about it anyway because it was only one model up from the one we had. Note the word had..... yep camera no more. Yesterday after dinner on our walk back to the hotel I fell over while crossing the road and mmm had to get up really quick because they really don't stop for people crossing the street let alone falling over. Anyway i...

Well what a busy couple of days again. I am writing this from our hotel/hostel in Guayaquil. We arrived here about 4.30 this afternoon flying from Cuenca where we have been for the last two nights. So to bring you up to speed, we arrived in Cuenca late on Wednesday afternoon (we travelled straight from the Inca Fortress of Ingapirca). Our hotel, the Santa Lucia was just beautiful. Very old family home renovated (took over 19 years) to a hotel. One of the pic's s...