Yet again, we weren't treated to a good bus journey from Trujillo to Mancora as I was first hoping. In fact, this was to be the worst ever bus journey that I have ever been on in my life and I'll begin to explain why. I'm was fecked with whatever bug/infection I got on the Santa Cruz trek, so my energy levels were still at an all time low, shivering and falling asleep at every slightly comfortable moment. I slept on the chair in the bus station as we waited to bo...

Next on the map was a place called Trujillo that we were to visit. To be honest, it was really a stop off point as we wanted to get to Mancora, a small beach town on the coast but it was necessary to stop there in Trujillo and to change buses to go any further. Plus, no one likes 24 hour bus journeys. We went to the bus station in Huaraz and booked an overnight bus with Expressa 14 and fair play to the lady there, she put us downstairs on the bus, in semi cama ...

To be honest, I couldnt wait to get out of that cloud called 'Garua' that covered Lima whilst I was there and just to get back to nature. The 'garua' covers the Peruvian coast for something like 8-9 months of the year, leaving the people of Lima, the Limons! Having to suffer the SAD syndrome, feck that, I'm getting out of here I thought. Anyways, it had always been my plan to do as much trekking as possible in Peru whilst I was there, so it was time to get my ars...

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 ...