The floating islands, lake titicaca... So I didn`t even spend a night in Puno on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca. It`s a bit of a dump and the only reason so stop there is to visit the nearby floating islands of the Uro people. I arrived off the night bus from Cusco and immediately booked myself onto a trip to the islands followed by a bus direct to Copacabana on the Bolivian side of the lake... this really is a whistle stop tour of the world`s highest navig...

Cusco and Machu Picchu... I think this one will be brief because whilst Machu Picchu was truly magical I don´t really have a great story to tell about my visit... sorry! I went, it was amazing... that´s that! Alright I´ll fill you in a bit but don´t get your hopes up for amusing annacdotes!! hehe! I went with 3 friends from Hands On... Dennis, Marsha and Emma. We really had a fantastic time. We took the poor man´s route which involved a...

...a holiday from Hands On. So the week I was building classrooms in Ica I visited the little oasis town of Huacachina. While most of the rest of our team used their Sunday off to marvel at the phenomena of the Nazca Lines, my work buddy Dennis and I decided to marvel at our own laziness and nipped off to a sand dune for a bit of well earned r and r! Huacachina is a very small town situated around a murky lake in the desert about 10 minutes drive away from Ica. ...

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...