Arrived into Lima at midnight and went straight to the Point Hostel in Barranco suburb where we had a reservation. We had been recommended it by other travellers and it was a similar chain to the Loki hostel we stayed at in Cusco. We were shown around the hostel and to our dorm which was appropriately named little england! We went straight to bed as were so tired. The next morning we walked along the coastline to Miraflores which is next to Barranco and has l...

We got a bus from Nazca to Ica after we had our fill of sunbathing. We then got a taxi to Huacachina which is a tiny town around an oasis in the middle of the desert! We found a great hostel called santaterria which had really cheap rooms. We booked our sandboarding trip for the next afternoon and then went to find some dinner. The next morning we walked around the town and looked at the various market stalls they had. We then found a lovely place for lunch ...

We got a day bus from Arequipa to Nazca. This was the best bus I had been on since Argentina. We got blankets, pillows, food and there was a film on in english that we watched! We arrived in Nazca at around 5pm and checked into a hotel which was right opposite the bus station and had a pool. We went in the economy room so it worked out pretty cheap! We then went to book our flight over the Nazca lines for the next day. The 'Nazca lines' are a series of pict...

We arrived in Arequip aat 6am on Sunday morning and booked straight onto a two day tour of the Colca Canyon. This si the deepest canyon in the world at 4160m (twice as deep as the grand canyon although its walls are not as steep). We set off at 8am and drove through the colca valley stopping off at several view points along the way. The land here is very fertile and apparently it si where potatoes first came from before they were taken to europe?! We had lunc...

Our gap tour of the inca trail started on Sunday. We left at 8am and drove to a town called Pisaq which had some inca ruins which we looked around. We then had some lunch at the worst restaurant in the world. The service was awful, sarah waited about 30 minutes for her drink which arrived after she had finished her food! And Beth and my pudding came before our main meal! After that we went on to Ollantaytambo another town with inca ruins. We did a short wal...