We arrived back in Lima, our last destination, yesterday, checked back into Hotel Kamana, and after a spot of lunch, spent the rest of the afternoon holed up in our room watching cable TV, packing, throwing out skanky clothes and showering! We ventured out for our last supper in Estadio, a football-themed bar/restaurant (Nat's choice). We dined on weird Peruvian food surrounded by Maradona and Beckham (only waxworks though), then tried to make the most of our l...

We moved to the next town Ica today. Our taxi driver who took us there offered to take us on a tour of two wineries and a chocolate factory, so after we checked into our hostel (which is the closest thing to a prison cell ever!), we piled back into the taxi and went to the chocolate factory. We could only watch them making the chocs from outside, for hygiene reasons (no smelly backpackers allowed!), soafter 5 minutes, we piled into the main attraction (the shop...

We had a great lazy day today...had dinner next to the lagoon in Huacachina in the baking sun with a massive sand dune for a view, then lay around reading til about 4pm, when we summoned our energy to go sandboarding...soooo much fun!! Our driver was a crazy driver, and the drive around the dunes was better than a ride at Alton Towers! We then had numerous goes sliding down the dunes on sandboards...Nat opted for sliding down on her front (can't fall over if I'm...

Me, Becks and Sarah arrived in Nazca last night after our 6 hour journey from Lima. Today, we have done a tour of the aquaducts that water the plants in very dry Nazca, saw Inca ruins, visited a ceramic factory and a gold mining company and then took a very bumpy flight in a light aircraft over the Nazca lines. The Nazca lines are a series of images in the land around Nazca done thousands of years ago...for what, no-one knows, but it was very interesting, even ...

We flew into Puerto Maldonado and were met by the Eco bus...a nifty contraption that was supposed to be a moving vehicle, but was slightly more of a death trap on wheels. We were taken to the port and piled into a canoe to take us upriver to the lodge. We were in two bed bungalows on stilts, with a seperate area for chilling out in hammocks...cozy! After lunch (which was served in a leaf), we piled into the canoe to go across to Monkey Island, which every...