Eventually we managed to get everything sorted for Daniel at the embassy, a new passport, flights, even some washing!! So me and Sean could fly up to Iquitos, in the Peruvian amazon.It felt so luxury (and a little wrong for us!) to be flying up to Iquitos, but you cannot access it by road. It was such an incredible experience, flying into the amazon, looking out the window and only seeing a mass of green for as far as the eye could see. It felt like the amazon we...

Before the laptop gets sent home...a quick little update from what we have been upto in Peru. We took a local bus for the day out to Pisac. Cusco is surrounded by the 'Sacred Valley'. The Incan influence (they used to be a population of over 9 million) spreads right into Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina, but the main sites of importance are around Cusco, and the Sacred Valley is part of the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu and full of amazing ruins in fantastic c...

We had such a fantastic day at Machu Picchu, and we couldn't recommend it more, no matter how many reverse snob travellers tell you they won't go there because its 'too touristy'. Well its touristy for a reason...its incredible, and deservedly one of the wonders of the world. It was such a fantastic experience, and we were still on a high when we took the overnight bus from Cusco the next day down to Nazca. It was a bit of a freaky journey - cutting straight thro...

Hi everyone...whilst I have some free internet thought I would send a little update from Peru. Plus the laptop is gettign sent home soon (noooo....) so i'm making the most of being able to babble away and bore people! excellent..... I think when I last wrote we were in La Paz, in Bolivia... The Spanish lessons were all a bit intimidating and scary, but it was good to pick up a tiny bit more and get out of my comfort zone a bit...as if traveling doesn't do that ...

Hi all, we are in Arequipa at the moment, a beautiful city in Peru. Absolutely loving relaxing before we head out to do an intense trek. Arequipa is the second largest city in Peru, and by far the most cosmopolitan. Apart from to check out the colonial history here, it's also a great base to get to the Colca Canyon, twice as large as the Grand Canyon in the US, a pretty spectacular sight. So that is where we are at the moment, will update you all soon with ...