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?"...