We gathered at 9am to meet our guide who would take us on a city tour and be with us for the following two days in the Colca Canyon. It was soon clear that some ailing - the two women from Wiltshire bailed out due to an emerging cold and stomach problems - Dan from Derby was also ailing with his stomach but valiantly soldiered on bailing out at the Santa Catalina convent along with the Norwegian couple and us - we bailed out for different reasons - hot, hungry a...

Today was a travel day - we left Nazca at 8 ish and headed south in beautiful sunshine albeit I could see a big cloud bank off to the west and it was not long before we were cooled down and driving along the desert highway to Arequipa in the midst of it. After about 90 minutes we passed a great gash in the earths surface which is the fault line which links with the one in the ocean and is an indicator of the unstable nature of the earths crust in this area and re...