Huaraz "Pare! pare!... Lucho can we stop". Out of breath, my heart thumping through my ears, I begged the guide to take a break. The clouds surrounded me, ice crystals in the air freezing my beard, my gloves soaked and frozen over, I was in trouble. Lucho, attached by a rope some 4 metres ahead of me turned. "Esta bien?"... "Si" I replied "I need to go for a pee..." With Laura sunning herself on the beach in Mancora I couldn't miss out on the opportunity to...

Mancora I got the night bus to Mancora from Lima with 2 Ozzie friends, Pep and Melinda. We decided to get one of the more luxurious buses, 'Cruz del Sur', where we had our own tv screen with numerous movies and got to play a game of bingo with the whole bus! A entertaining way to pass the 18 hour journey. As soon as we got off the bus in Mancora we were instantly approached by hoards of tuk tuk drivers shouting "Loki, Loki". This was the hostel we were booked in...

Lima We originally booked 2 nights in Lima and unintentionally ended up staying 6! We stayed in a hostel with 2 friends, Sam and Rory, in the suburb of Barranco which is the bohemian district. It is set on a cliffside overlooking the sea with colourful houses, old mansions and plentiful cafés and bars. The city is comprised of several suburbs, similar to Sau Paulo in Brazil. Barranco is the next suburb along from the popular commercial and tourist area of Mira...

Nazca & Huacachina After 12 days in Cusco we thought it was about time to leave! We got a night bus to Nazca, home of the Nazca lines. The lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs made up of animal figures and geometric shapes. Research indicates the lines were created by the Nazca culture but there are still many theories regarding their purpose and one of the great mysteries of South America. Our bus dropped us off on a dusty and busy highway with no indi...

Cusco & Machu Pichu We arrived in Machu Pichu to a very cold hostel right next to San Francisco church. We used the few days to relax and refuel our bodies for the 4 day trek that we booked back in February and was pretty much one of the only things we had set in stone, date wise, for our whole trip. Wandering around Cusco you couldn't help but notice the abundance of trekking shops and tour operators. Coinciding with a Peruvian national holiday and European...