Arequipa is the second most important city after Lima it has a more colonial style as is far more laid back than Lima. this was the first place that we started to notice the altitude but at only 2325 m (7626ft) above sea level it wasnt that high up at all.Arequipa is surrounded by snow capped Andes and unlike Lima (when I was there anyway) has bright blue skies, but the air was cold and had very strong sun. This was the first place I noticed the altitude starting...

This afternoon, we headed over to Nasca (at this stage most of us including myself had "Peruvian belly" aka chronic food poisoning ) but that wasn´t going to dampen our spirits to see the famous Nasca lines. We all headed towards the local airfield to see these famous lines made in the ground over 500 years ago. No one knows exactly why these lines were put there, were they a symbol to the gods? were they put there to attract aliens?? or was someo...

sanbaording down the sandunes!!

Here we are the start of my next tour and ourr first stop is Pisco, home of the gorgous Pisco sour!! Didn't do a lot here, as it was just an overnight stop over, just visitied a Pisco sour winnery (i think its called a winery anyway) where we happily accepted all the free samples of pisco sour and even brought some to take home with us.

YO!!Its me again and this time I have finally made it to Peru and right now I am nicely settled in Lima just by the beach in Miraflores where here's all year round surfing and paragliding and?I have to say its lovely!! Having heard all the horror stories of robberies and muggings when leaving the airport, I was pretty nervous about getting to my hostel but I have to say that I haven't had any problems at all, infact my taxi driver was lovely (even though ...