Hola again! I?ve spent a record 3 hours on the internet this evening and have uploaded 120 photos so you can waste time at work looking at them. Aren?t I thoughtful?! Right so last time I wrote I was about to get on the night bus to Huaraz. That was pretty uneventful though I didn?t get a lot of sleep. We checked into our hostel at 6am and had a few hours sleep before exploring the town. There?s not much in Huaraz, its basically a base for all types of activities...

Right I think its about time I caught up on my news since I last posted 11 days ago! We left Cusco and drove for a very long time to Arequipa (we definitely have the slowest overland truck in the Americas!) Arequipa is a very Spanish town with a huge Colonial influence, its really pretty. We spent a day looking round the monastery, cathedral and saw Juanita the Ice Maiden. Juanita was an Inca sacrifice but was frozen soon after death so is freakily well p...

Hola amigos! Que tal? Just a quick note to say hi, Im still alive and still having an awesome time. So awesome that although my plane to London leaves in 2 hours, Im sitting in a hostel writing this and searching for a new flight home that leaves at the beginning of July. :o) Should get it sorted in the next couple of days, before I leave Lima.  Will write more when I get a chance, got lots to write about (sandboarding, penguin watching, flying in litt...

Hola amigos! This is a very happy but tired Lizzie writing today - did the Inca Trail and survived to see sunrise over Machu Picchu!! So we travelled from Puno to Cusco via a 10 hour journey made 13 hours because of a lying tuk tuk driver (he said we had driven him off the road and caused him to crash, damaging his tuk tuk and breaking his nose) and corrupt police men (who made us drive back to the scene of the "accident" and pay them and the b...

Hey hey, sorry this is my first blog for about 2 weeks,?weve been so busy! Im currently in Puno, Peru, on the edge of the beautiful Lake Titicaca and its raining for the first time. Right my last entry was in Salta, Argentina,?so what happened next........We left Salta for Tupiza in Bolivia (interesting border crossing where we bribed the guards with beer!) and spent our first night in beds for a week. Bliss! The next day a few of us went on a 3hr horse trek into...