Hola At 6am we were rudely awoken by sunrise on the bus, and a view over a cliff, which was a bit shocking at first until it registered. The views were stunning, a big valley with small farming communities at the bottom. At the bus station, much to our relief our bags had also arrived, so we grabbed a cab to the plaza des armas(main square, which every city has) we became true backpackers and lugged our backpacks around three or four hostals to find a ...

Hola Today we set off to the next place Ica, where we planned to get a night bus to Arequipa, but on the coach we met the dutch couple again and the canadians who were all going to a place called Huacca China, sounded great, sand dunes, lovely hostal with hammocks, so when we got to Ica (which didnt inspire us much, loud busy city) we went and booked our night bus for saturday night instead and hopped in a taxi to Huacca China. 5 mins taxi ride took us ...

Hola! Well we made it to Pisco, very relieved as Lima was becoming a bit stressful and this place is really relaxed and much more friendly, however the bus ride in had us a little worried as we drove through sand dunes and shanty towns for 3 1/2 hours,we werent quite sure what to expect. When we finally manage to upload some photos you^ll see that we were pleasantly suprised. We spent the afternoon wandering around this little place, booked our trip to the...

10th June Hello Today we set off first thing, much to the pleasure of our body clocks, on our first tourist tour. With a tasty local version of Chausson Pomme inside us we set off to the Ballestas Islands in our little bus full of French-Canadians (they seem to be everywhere). We arrived in a a lovely littel fishing port near Paracas to catch our boat out to the Islands but not before taking a few snaps of the pelicans on the pier being fed by teh local...

Buenos Dias Hi everyone, update from peru havent found paddington yet, I dont think you can get marmalade sandwiches either. We're fine, this place is crazy, we should have learned spanish a bit better, its big and scary but not too much in your face. Two little scumbags nicked the bloody peru rough guide from my(c) hand about an hour ago so we're travelling blind for the moment. Its winter so it goes dark at 6pm but sort of muggy with a cold wind, th...