I'm actually writing this instalment in Leicester, having had insurmountable problems with technology in the airport at Sao Paulo (and a very odd man in an internet cafe in Lima!). I've just uploaded 3 albums of photos, but as usual I'm really frustrated - offexploring has now deleted the option of rotating pictures. There are a couple that I've left on anyway because I like them so much, so please lie on your side to look at them! I left Chiclayo on Thursday 30...

I´ve managed to find an internet cafe with CD drives, so I could upload 3 albums of photos - Zorritos and the dry forest, catacaos, and Chiclayo and around. But the website won´t let me rotate pictures today, so I haven´t been able to use any that were sideways (to use the technical term!). The craft market in Catacaos was disappointing. Most of the stalls were selling the same, often tacky, goods, but I found a shop selling some lovely semi-precious jeweller...

Sorry about the email alert yesterday, when there was nothing to read! Updating the blog has proved really difficult this time. I´m in the third internet cafe I´ve tried today, and have managed to upload 4 albums of photos, Zorritos, Ollantaytambo, Aguas Calientes and Machu Picchu. Let´s hope I can save the text as well. On Weds 15th I set off from Cusco on a 2 day trip to Machu Picchu the idea was to arrive at 6 a.m. on the Thursday to see the sunrise. NonPe...

I was hoping to upload photos, but the computer I´m using doesn´t have a CD thing! I´ve also just spent 2 hours writing about the last 10 days , then been unable to save the text, so fingers crossed!

I´ve been in the internet cafe all morning and only managed to upload half the photos I tried to, but there are 2 new albums. After all the problems with the chest infection and altitude sickness, I changed my plans and went to the Manu rainforest on Sunday 5th July, and got back yesterday evening. There were 6 of us in the group - a Dutch couple (he was 79, she was 56), 2 American sisters in their early 20´s, a Korean/Canadian girl and me, with an English gui...