Lima is a massive city and for most of the year it is very foggy, look down the road 2 blocks and you'll see a wall of fog in most directions, very strange! Having found out that my bag and guitar didn't make the journey from Piura, we spoke to the manager of the bus company and arranged to pick my stuff up the following morning, a few hours before our flight to Cusco! We booked into Loki hostel which is a well known chain and had a relaxed Sunday. Up early in t...

Piura.... not a lot to say! Arrived at 6am and had to wait until 7pm for the bus to Lima, matt had his bag stolen in the morning from right under his nose so we didn't really enjoy this place! Only good thing was the bus, we paid an extra £10 for super cama, cama means bed and it was a very luxurious bus. The seats went flat and we had our own Tv and headphones, plus a waitress bringing us meals and drinks!! Slept like a baby for the first time on a bus! Arriv...

We decided to stop off at Cuenca to save doing a mammoth bus journey. We found a hostel which was like something out of horror movie, a big old hotel with the worst beds ever! And they played loud local music all day which echoed through the hallways, strange place. We walked round the centre and it turned out to be a nice change from the busy Quito city. Sat in the plaza square and relaxed, south America is full of plaza squares, nice and relaxing places where y...

We arrive in Quito around tea time, find a hostel which turns out to hold pretty much all UK travellers. One lad mentions that there is a decent curry house round the corner, matt and I look at each other and nod! We have been craving something like that for a long time! So, we head out for a Saturday night, English style... Masala and a few beers, then to the sport bar for more beers, to the Irish bar for pool and more beers... you get the idea! Was a fun night,...

We had quite a trip getting to Ecuador, we planned to go straight to Quito but after a random coach swap at 2am, then the bus breaking down for 6 hours, getting onto another smaller bus up an down the mountain roads, catching another small van from Pasto to the border...! We decided that we would just a get a quick bus to Otavalo and stay a night there, it was quite an experience, our first breakdown of the trip, apart from the half powered boat on the amazon if ...