Lima is huge! Its not as big as Sao Paulo, but its still big. As we drove through the outer suburbs it looked like a pure kip and I'm wondering to myself why anyone would ever want to come here. Has it any beauty at all I pondered as we drove further into the city? Its dark when we arrive also, so being a bit biased but I make my assumption that it doesnt look like much. The bus station is in a dodgy part of town and with Friday nights traffic bustling all over t...

Its lovely and warm in Ica, we're finally out of the cold nights and now in a desert like environement. We grab a joer and head to Huachachina, a small settlement in an oasis some five minutes away. The town is so tiny, I'd say it was 200metres long if you were to measure it, sitting on the side of a little oasis with towering sand dunes surrounding every side. We stayed at Banana Bungalows, a nice little place with wooden huts as dorms and a small pool beside ...

We arrive in Nazca at 6am or so I think, we're ahead of schedule but its bright outside and we want off the bus! This place for us was just a stopover of a town for us, solely to see the lines as we had heard its a pure kip with nothing else to do. We're the only gringos who get off the bus and its quiet in town at that hour. I'm usually a person who likes to do some research about prices and whatnot about activities I want to partake in but we had no tips, no ...

I leave Cusco at night to cross the mountains to head south west to the city of Arequipa. I have a travelling companion with me now, a girl called Karly from Melbourne and as we were bought heading the same way, both travelling solo during previous weeks and months, we said why not and left together for Arequipa. Its a b**** of a journey to Arequipa, an over night journey with Cruz Del Sur but regardless of how careful we were of booking with a good company nothi...

Borders for the most part have been fine for me, with the one exception of the date f*** up when at the Venezualan/Brazilian one. Things are about to change when I'm at the Bolivian/Peru border point around 8pm, hoping for it to go by without any hitches. I'm in a queue with two bus loads of other people all heading the same way, when finally I get to the top of the line to get my exit stamp, I'm asked a question by the border control guard: "You speak Spanish?"...