After years of planning, saving and with all my Christmas presents wrapped I cant believe the time has come to say goodbye to my family and friends to set off on my adventure. I would like to thank everyone close to me for all their support, helping me to make this trip possible. Those of you who know me well, will not believe that my bag weighs only 13kg - surely there is something I have forgotten! Over the next 8 months I will visit South East Asia, Australia...

With a day to go the excitement is building, in 24hours I will be making my way to Gatwick airport. Destination: Peru The list of things to still prepare is worryingly getting longer and I am running out of time - I am surprisingly not normally this disorganized! For the first 3 weeks I will be travelling around Peru, with one of my oldest school friends Liz, which I am sure will be an experience of a lifetime. We are hoping to visit Ica, Nasca, Cuzco and Ma...