After 2 weeks of hard graft in Pisco it was time again to continue with my travels. I was really sad to leave. My time working for Hands On, as brief as it was, was easily one of the highlights of my trip so far. I`ll give you an idea about the work that the organisation Hands On and what I got up to in the two weeks that I was working for them...ç First a bit about the earthquake itself... The province of Ica was worst affected by the 7.9 earthquake that ...

hard labour and a head full of brick dust... I´m in Pisco now to help out with the earthquake clear up. I arrived at the end of last week and had my first taste of rubble... literally! There is so much dust here you can´t help but end up with mouths full of it. The 4 hour drive here from lima was an incredible sobering experience. As I got further down the coast the damage and destruction became more and more apparent as we passed through towns effec...

Hello. It´s a little while since I´ve written. I´ve been quite busy! So I had a slight change of plan after Trujillo and went to Lima to say a final goodbye to my old travel buddy Ben before heading to Huaraz and the Cordilleras Blancas mountains. I arrived at the hostel in Lima where Ben was staying and, by coincidence, happened to bump into Peter, one of the English guys Ben and I had spent some time with in Colombia. So the three of us hung out ...

So here I am in Peru... Trujillo to be precise. I´m on my way to the mountains around Huaraz tomorrow for some serious hiking. I´m just writing a quick note to say that I´m all up to date with the blog now. Galapagos was such an epic trip that my account of it has been equally epic and I´ve been chipping away at it for the last few weeks! I´ve entitled each section by animal type so you can skip past any creatures you might not be so inte...

We endured a bumpy sleepless night bus ride to Cuenca arriving at the bus station at 5am hungry (I was), cold (Antoine was) and very grumpy (I certainly was!). We arrived at our hotel and went straight to sleep! Once rested and recovered we set about exploring Cuenca... and what a beautiful city it is too. Certainly one of the most beautiful colonial cities I´ve seen so far on this trip. Perhaps one of the prettiest I´ve seen ever. Whilst it is very bea...