After getting off the train we walked through a market which surrounds the station to find our hostel which we had pre-booked in Cusco. You can imagine my disappointment when I realised we were staying opposite Hostel John, why hadn't I been given that as an option? We planned to go to Machu Picchu the next day but had been given numerous pieces of advice of how best to visit the site. With these pieces of advice in hand we knew it was best to buy our entry tic...

After a sleepless nights travel coupled with travel sickness as the driver swung the coach around the mountain roads Sue and I arrived in Cusco looking to acclimatise to the altitude for a few days before heading over to Machu Picchu. We took a taxi from the bus station to the area of town where we had earmarked a hostel we would like to stay at. Once we got to the area we couldn't find the hostel we were looking for so we went for an alternative in the same pa...

A short bus ride from Huacachina took us in to Nazca where we arrived around midday. Nazca is most famous for the Nazca lines which are a collection of lines and shapes in the ground around the town. The shapes where made by removing the sun scorched rocks from the surface to reveal shapes which are best seen from the sky. Nobody is quite sure why the lines and shapes where made and the significance of them. We had been debating as to whether or not we should f...

Waking up in Lima we planned to spend hours on the bus and make it to Nazca in one day. I however was a little fed up of buses having done a lot of journeys in a relatively short space of time. I decided to consult the book and see if there was anywhere on route we could stop instead for a night to break up the tedium of hours on a bus. I chanced upon a place named Ica in the book which was a rather unspectacular town, however, about 5km outside was a tiny vill...

We arrived in Trujillo in the afternoon and were immediately happier to be in a bigger town than Chiclayo. We found ourselves a really nice hostel which had an impressive court yard area. Our hostel also had a tour agency attached so we decided, rather than risk having to interpret Spanish again, to book an English speaking tour for the next day. The night we arrived also happened to be Peru Vs Argentina in a World cup qualifier. We lucked upon a restaurant in ...