After 29 hours of travelling, we finally got to Lima airport and we thought the worst had happened. After standing at the luggage carousel for over 45 minutes there were about 5 of us left with no bag still. Ben not happy at all.......Then out it came, the last bloody one! Phew!

The weather in Lima wasnt exactly hot, so our bargain buy winter jackets are looking like being a great investment, they'll be looking like a new tattoo soon. It's really dirty too (like pollution), makes Boro look like the real St Tropez in terms of air quality. Unfortunately Lisa had her camera pick-pocketed on our third night in Lima by some locals in a bar, anyway thats all sorted so a minor hiccup at the start wasnt enough to get us down too much. The visit to the police station where no-one spoke English was rather amusing.

Lima didnt have that much to offer, we went to see the palace where the President lives and the changing of the guard (rather dagged out in comparison to the Buckingham Palace version), this one lasted about 45 minutes and most people were yawning from halfway through. Then to one of the oldest churches in Peru where there is this underground celler with over 25,000 bodies in there (so they are all just bones now), was really weird and would have been a great setting for a horror movie. It seems like there aren´t many tourists in Lima as people keep staring at us and asking us questions all the time in Spanish, to which I reply, "sorry I don´t speak Spanish"! Some even point and shout "Gringo". There was this weird guy who looked like a tramp who kept telling us he knew Pele when he was younger, he smelt badly and tried to con us, then asked us to buy him a beer, Lima seemed full of these kind of folk.

We then moved on to Nasca which was a little more touristy as you would expect because of the Nasca lines. They were quite pricey, but well worth it, we went on a 5-man plane which was very rickety and Lisa felt a little sick when the pilot was thinking he was Maverick doing all these bloody turns left and right over the lines. The lines were pretty special (the monkey, spider and astronaut were the best) and we got some great photos which we´ll try and upload. We got there via an 8 hour bus ride with a cheap company called Flores. The bloke at our hostel was european so gave us a few tips, one was to not travel on the bus with a company called "Flores" as they "are the dodgy ones" he muttered in his eastern european accent. We then began to understand that the stopping during the night in the middle of the desert and letting an extra 40 peruvians get on the bus, meaning we were like sardines in a tin can, made sense. Was quite scarey actually and we then found out that most "gringo´s" travel on the expensive, safe buses, which we couldn´t afford!

After Nasca, went to Paracas where there is the poor mans Galapagos islands, called the Ballestas Islands. They were good, but after speaking to people who have been to the Galapagos, seem more like the homeless mans Galapagos. But nonetheless, we seen some cute penguins jumping off the rocks into the see and Ben got shat on by the one of the 50,000 birds on the islands. Also, Ben made the vital mistake of putting loo roll down the toilet in a deprived area with poor sewerage system. Result - blocked toilet, flooded bathroom and an angry Lisa who kept saying "I told you so" all half an hour before checkout. Rather embarrassing having to tell them in my poor spanish that I had "broke" the toilet. On that note, we´ll update you soon on the Inca trail which is our next adventure!