Hello hello, We travelled from Lima straight up the coast to Mancora for a bit of R and R. It was a bit bizarre, we were staying in a hostel but it was right on the beach with a huge swimming pool and felt a little like we were on a package holiday in Spain! Weather was boiling hot and so the pool was very welcome. Rhys was also very excited at the prospect of being able to get into the sea and have a surf! I was slightly more nervous at the prospect of having m...

Hello hello, We travelled from Lima straight up the coast to Mancora for a bit of R and R. It was a bit bizarre, we were staying in a hostel but it was right on the beach with a huge swimming pool and felt a little like we were on a package holiday in Spain! Weather was boiling hot and so the pool was very welcome. Rhys was also very excited at the prospect of being able to get into the sea and have a surf! I was slightly more nervous at the prospect of having m...

Hi everybody! We have just returned from our 3day trip into the jungle. We flew to Iquitos and caught a bus to Nauta before heading off into the jungle by boat! We arrived at our camp, it was very basic but really lovely, had a delicious lunch and then paddled off upstream to look for wildlife. Within 15 minutes we had seen lots of different birds (too many to remember all the names) and some monkeys!!! We were both overly excited about seeing the monkeys, even ...

Hello again! Our plans had to change slightly due to miners´strikes preventing us getting to Lima due to road blocks. So we headed to Arequipa which is meant to be a very nice city. Which it is. Unfortunately we spent the first day trying to send packages of things home (cuosin lucy it´s mostly your alpaca requests!) and going to the doctors as I still wasn´t feeling well. From Arequipa we decided to doa tour of the Colca Canyon, the 2nd deepest canyon in th...

Hello everyone! Sorry its been so long since the last entry (parents that apology is really aimed at you) but we are both asfe and well and have been busy busy! After La Paz we went to Copacabana on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca. As a town there is not a whole lot to see but the view of the lake is stunning. We climbed up a hill above the town which was a pilgrimage for many Bolivian people and the whole way was marked out with different crosses. The view w...