We stayed in Huaraz a town really high up in the mountains for three nights . Theres wasnt much to do in the town itself however there were loads of excursions up into the snowcapped mountains to hike and even climb glaciers!! Yesterday we went for a mountain hike up to lake 69 which is this stunning lagoon at circa 5,000m! Nat our tour leader had said it was the hardest hike she'd ever done (and shes been traveling for years) but we thought we'd give it a ...

.................... and then there was Starbucks! Ahh Lima! Arrived here late night and checked into a gorgeous hotel right on the main square. Tired and exhausted from two physically gruelling days, we headed to McDonalds (we know, sorry, but we needed it) and then had an early night. First day in Lima we had a city tour then headed to Miraflores, a nearby town to Lima famous for its shopping malls. First stop for us and a few friends was Starbucks where Anit...

We camped in a village off the coast called Huanchaco. Hunachaco is a mud city where we visited pre inca ruins and learnt all about the how the towns were built from mud, sand and water and the the meaning of the fantastic paintings and drawings inside some of the temples and buldings that had been built by the Mochers before it was stormed by the incas. Fascinating to see how intact the buildings were that had been built centuries ago and to learn what archeolog...

First stop in Peru was the sunny beach town of Mancora which was a really beautiful town with lots of locals setting up their market stalls along the dusty roads! We welcomed the sun in Mancora and headed to the beach on the first day where we parked our bums under an umbrella, ordered our drinks and read our books in the sun. Unfortunately the lovely miss smith underestimated the power of the sun and returned back to our hotel looking like a homemade sunderland ...

Oh I forgot, before reaching Otavalo we stopped at the Equator, very cool to think we were stood at the middle of the earth and we were hopping between north and south of the equator, it was really windy, not too sure what I was expecting with the weather, you know me, not the brightest of sparks. I was hoping to see the toilet water experiment where the toilet water goes in one direction one side of the equator and the other direction on the other side but there...