Night bus, night bus, night bus... the only way to travel! We arrived at Ica around 6am and took a taxi straight to the small town of Huacachina. It's a small oasis town surrounded by huge sand dunes. The main attraction of the town is effcetively a V8 engine strapped to a roll cage. This is then filled with gringos (white tourists) and belted around the sand dunes. So much fun! We also had a go at sand surfing. Imagine lying on a piece of plywood going down a ...

After the 10 hour night bus we made it into Arequipa at the respectible time of 5am. Knocking on the door of the hostel and asking to check in at this time seemed a bit cheeky but when you don´t understand what it is thay are shouting at you about anyway its less of a problem! We spent the day looking around the city and sampling the local cuisine (beer). It was decided that we needed a bit of culture in our lives so we visited one of the many museums where the...

Its been a busy first week of travels! The 3 flights to get here were very uneventful thankfully, after all the drama of volcanic ash and BA strikes everything went to plan and I arrived in Cusco. I didn´t have any issues with the altitude just a bit of a headache and it was an effort to do anything - but that´s not unusual for me. My first impression of Peru was that it´s totally mental and a complete culture shock. The taxi ride from the airport to the hos...