Day 31 April 24th Up at 7.30am for a city tour of Lima and then off to ruins and pyramids of Pacchucamac {means earth energy} which are flat topped pyramids dating back over 2000 years up to the time of the Incas 500 years ago. Went for lunch at Nautic Rosa on the Pier for posh lunch sitting watching the surfers and eating everything on the menu. Walked along the beach and watched the sun go down, which was very appropriate as it was adios to Peru and also Jill, ...

Day 30 April 23rd Up at 7.30am for a visit to the local pottery works where Saddam Hussains brother demonstrated how to make pots like they did 200 years ago then off to see how they extract gold from the local rocks, which was very interesting but seems like a lot of hard work, so think I would prefer to make the fake pots instead ;o) Nasca was very basic and caotic and didn't see any other gringos until the airport, where we sat around for 3 hours before our fl...

Day 29 April 22nd Up at 5.30am for another cold shower and the 4 hour boat and bus ride back to the airport. It was sunny and so relaxing to be on the boat and soaking up the Amazon atmosphere, saw some capabyas, which are the largest rodents in the world and very cute. Fly to Cusco and then to Lima. Have to say good bye to Joe and Steph and Terry the Vim Diesel of guides and then on the night bus for 7 hours with Jill to Nasca lines. You know it's a good bus ser...

Day 28 April 21st Up at 4.30am for early morning walk through the jungle to observation hut by a waterhole sitting still for 2 hours, everyone was so tired and kept falling asleep with their heads resting against the small peep holes and some people missed all the animals. I kept awake most of the time and saw black monkeys squirrel monkeys parrots and a poisonous black and red caterpillar. The highlight was Joe getting stung by a bee and Steph falling over in th...

Day 27 Thursday 20th April. Went to Jacks famous for it's enormous full cooked breakfast, see pic, then flew from Cusco, which was a fab place and coined the phrase'maybe later'for our group because when we would say no grasias to the numerous street venders they always said 'maybe later!'which became our catch phrase for everything. Short flight into the jungle followed by a bus ride and then onto the boat up a tributary of the Amazon to our jungle lodge, 4.5 ho...