After our flight we headed to the bus station and caught a bus to Ica, then took a short ride to Huacachina. This is a small oasis town in the middle of the desert and is surrounded by HUGE sand dunes. We took a trip on a dune buggy through the dunes, which was far from relaxing! The driver was a maniac, which meant we had lots of fun! We sped over the dunes reaching huge mountains of sand and then sped at full pelt down vertical cliffs and up huge banks of s...

We took the overnight bus to Nazca and, as it was a 10 hour journey, we decided to splash out on a 15 quid bus!!! It was worth every penny, the bus station had a suite for our bus service, then the bus had huge seats with a foot rest and all the other bells and whistles! This turned out to be good, as we hit a huge delay, we're not too sure why, but we were in a long queue of traffic! We arrived in Nazca quite well rested and got stuck straight in. We took a t...

We arrived in Arequipa after a very strange bus journey! The very empty bus stopped half way and picked up about 10,000 people, so the bus then became really crowded, especially as all the street sellers piled onto the bus! We decided to get off for a few minutes to escape the cattle market on the bus and bought roasted meat and potatoes from a lady at the side of the road, selling food out of a big potato sack! Half way through eating it we realised, we had no...

We visited Uros Islands, the floating islands on Lake Titicaca. Lake Titicaca is around 175km long and 60km wide and is shared with Bolivia. They began their floating villages in order to isolate themselves from the Collas and the Incas and they have stayed on the lake ever since. The main work nowadays for the locals is fishing and tourism. The islands are made from the Totora reeds, which are used for everything by the islanders, from the islands themselves, ...

There's no rest for the wicked! We were up early after our 4 day trek to catch our bus to Puno, south of Cusco. We arrived after a 7.5 hour bus journey through mountains, which was nice, and bumpy roads which wasn't! We set about booking trips and buses to our next destination, before browsing the markets for Alpaca hats and gloves - it's so cold here! We are at 3880 metres above sea level here, so it is bitterly cold in the morning and night but red hot in ...