We had arrived in Cusco a few days earlier (August 24th) to aclimatise to the altitude (3300m). I was a bit aprehensive about getting altitude sickness again since the Quito/Cotopaxi experience was not all that pleasent. I had a great time at Wild Rover in Arequpia so before I knew it I was knocking at the door of the Cusco branch. On Thursday we did a tour of the city given by a guy from Donegal who has been living there for about two and half years. It was a ...

Apologies for the delay in posting a blog but it has been a busy few weeks coupled with a few places without Internet and a few days in the vortex that is Cuscos nightlife. The last blog finished with a quick trip to Lima to pick up Sean and from there we headed south to a place called Huachchina (its similiar to the blog pic). It is a tiny town of about 200 people. The only reason gringos head there is to sandboard down some wicked dunes. For a ridiculous price...

It has been about a week and i'm still committed to keeping this blog up to date. We have done a fair bit of travelling up the northern coast of Peru and we are in a great little town of Mancora at the minute. The first stop after Lima was a place called Trujillo. We caught an overnight bus and thankfully my short arse legs fitted into the seats just fine so I was able to get some kip. Pete on the otherhand was not so lucky, I think he managed an hour of sleep o...

I set out from Dublin at 6am last Thursday with 24 hours of travel ahead of me. I had been looking forward to the trip for ages so the long long travelling ahead didn't phase me. However that was until i realised that when we would arrive in Lima at 4:30 am we wouldn't be able to check into our room till one pm! Suffice to say Friday was tough day. Still got to head out and check out some of the city while we were waitig for the room. Oh, we arranged the hostel...