23 April 09 I am just about ready for a siesta in my hammock! We are in Punta Sal, a nice little beach spot some 150km from the Peru/Ecuador border, and have just enjoyed a delicious lunch of grilled fish...which we caught ourselves! This morning we went out on a (primitive) fishing boat with a couple of local fishermen and spent two or so hours fishing our little hearts out! But not with fishing rods, but hand lines made out wood! Bless! Even the anchor was '...

17 April 09 We are bored in Huaraz! 12 hours on the truck yesterday to get here and today, when we should have been hiking to Laguna 69, we are couped up in our hotel room as Tim is feeling a little under the weather... Nothing serious, just a bit of an upset stomach and is having to sleep it off as he has no energy (and I wasn't going to leave him all day - who would get his lunch for him?). The town is surrounded my amazing mountains (which we forgot to get ...

14 April 09 We have finally made it back into civilisation...we are in Lima! The last few days (Easter weekend!) have been spent in places in the middle of nowehere - all great places - and so there has been amlpe opportunity to relax and just do very little! A nice change...although we really missed eating Easter eggs on Sunday :( Obviously, its been very hard to update the blog, as we havent had access to any internet, so here's a quick rundown on what's bee...

9 April 09 Days on the truck can be long... What better way to pass the time than to play games. Tim has invented a fabulous little game called, "You Know You're In South America When...". Now, its pretty easy...you just need to list all the reasons why you KNOW you're in South America. Here's what we've come up with so far (of course, we shall add on more as time progresses...and as more truths rear their ugly little heads)... You know you're in S...

8 April 09 Feel sick. Want to vomit. Need to vomit. Dizzy spell. Feel sick. Want to vomit. Need to vomit. Am going to vomit. Cant vomit. Head spin. Ohhh! This was me 24 hours ago and for the 36 hours before that. And I was one of the lucky ones! It seems a nasty little parasite called Giardia, made its way into half the Inca trail group's systems. Apparently, we were given contaminated water on the Inca trail, or ate food that had been washed in contaminated w...