We are warm! ......This oasis is the best...... we have to most beautiful hotel with a room that over looks the swimming pool. A quick look around the morning that we arrived resulted in some of the most beautiful scenery i have ever seen. The Oasis has pedaloes / canoes and row boats for hire. Surrounding this is a promenade with local market stalls - bars and restaurants, then you look up to see the tallest sand dunes that you can imagine. Sand boards are for h...

Saturday morning, we had an early 0700am collection by bus to go into Paracas to visit the Ballestas islands. No time for breakfast and once again the winter woolies were required. We arrived at the port and waited in line to board the small speedboat. After about half hour and trying to avoid the active and very large pelicans that were running around by the jetty... we were advised that the port was actually closed.... So we went off to have some breakfast whic...

Today started a little later than most...due to the large G&T's consumed last night. We were booked on to a 13.30 bus to Pisco. After some brunch we headed via taxi to the bus station. You can imagine our surprise when the bus turned out to be a very luxurious double decker bus with reclining seats. Slightly into the journey the steward gave us a hot meal and a drink. Entertainment was a film followed by a game of bingo! prize was a bottle of Pisco. Leaving...

Today was a lazy day..up just in time for a 10.30 breakfast. With so many museums and historical buildings to see we decided to ignore all of these and head to the cliff top suburb of Barranco. A very pleasant suburb to wander around although we couldn't work out why they had two statue?'s, one of John Wayne and one of Harry Potter, strange people these Peruvians...I refer you to the studio. Lunch was once again the menu of the day, this consisted of a picnic eg...

Hi... we have spent the last couple of days exploring Lima. We are staying in a really nice area called Miraflores. First stop, surprisingly enough, was shopping yesterday, ...hats scarves and coats. We read somewhere before we arrived that Lima should be around 70 degrees during the day.. However it is very cold and the sky is full of smog that blocks out any sunlight! Central Lima was on the cards for todays activities. Lima is similar to many large Cities with...