Arrived at Arequipa late and spent the first night in as still recovering from my self inflicted alcohol poisioning. Then spent the next day walking around the city marvelling at its great colonial architecture. And buying jewellery really cheaply, I bought a really nice silver necklace and earing set for under 10 pounds-bargain! As I was feeling better, that night I enjoyed a great meal of larma, ostridage and beef. Its the first time ive tried larma and os...

We travelled deep into the desert to visited the Chauchilla cemetery which is made up of a number of open graves with all of the remains on display, which is really erry and feels wrong. A real tourist trap. Then we travelled along the coast and camped on the beach at Puerto Inca. The beach was nice enough but the sea was too strong to swim in as there was a strong undercurent that sucks you under and pelts you with pebals, so I stayed out of the sea and pl...

So with most of the group having a hangover from hell, we made your way from Pisco, to the Ballestas Islands where we took a speed boat around the island. The island is famous for the amount of wildlife that inhabiltes it such as sea lions, penguines, and mass amounts of birds and with birds come birds poo and how is smelt. Apparantly, it is someones job to once a month clear all the birds poo off the rocks and they sell it as fertilliser, what a crap job that is...

So all 32 of us set off from Lima, headed to Pisco, which we call 'piss all to do', as it was a little town with little or nothing to do there, except sit around drinking the local drink 'pisco sour' which was fine with me. It was one of the new lads birthday so we all made our own fun doing drinking games and get to know each other. The next month is definately going to be a ball as most of the group are up for a laugh and there are some real party animals...

We leave Huanchanco with a little trepidation as we are gaining another 20 group member at Lima, so the dirty dozen will be no more and the group will now be 34. Thats a lot of people, dont know how I feel about it as I really liked our small group as we felt like a little family. Now theres gonna be alot of personalities all competing against each other. Well as long as there is some nice one it should continue to be a blast. Spent 3 nights in Lima and we m...