On Fri 26th Jo flew home whilst I flew up to tarapoto in the north of peru to see Rachel from uni who is working up there as part of bristish council. Rach and Chelo her Peruvian boyfriend were there to meet me and we got back to her place on her lil motorbike! So I arrived pretty late so after a quick catch up I fell straight to sleep. Her flat is cute but it didn't have any glass in the windows as it's not needed so it lets loads of cool air in all the time whi...

Well.....me and jo had 2 days lef in lima and had done everything that we wanted to do in the city so we decided to do a days trip dwon to paracas, islas ballestas and the nazca lines. So our pick-up was at 4am!!!!! We left lima and i got in the car and went straight back to sleep and we arrived in paracas at 7.30. Our boat left at 8am and already from the quay we saw pelicans and some dolphins too!! On the way out to islas ballestas we saw the candalabra in t...

"in the jungle the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonite............." so we left cuzco and got an one of the worst flights of my life to puerto maldonado. The flight was only supposed to last 25mins which seems ridiculous but it was more like 40 and the turbulance was awful - i had jo next to me tryin to read a ceviche recipe to take her mind off of the bumpy ride while i just clutched on to my seat whatever use that makes!! So arrived in puerto maldonado then ...

ok well our start of the tour was a lot later than we had originally thought as due to bad lima weather (always foggy) the first flight to cuzco was cancelled so we didnt have to leave til 8 instead of 4 so rather happy about that!! Got on flight and arrived in cuzco in the arvo and headed to bed staright away to get acclimatised to the altitude. Later on we got up and had a look around the town at the cathedral, fountain etc. That night we had dinner with some o...

hello!! well i arrived in lima sin problema and checked into my hostel which was nice but rather quiet but the guy that ran it was so lovely and helpful too. So i stayed in miraflores a nice area of lima as the centre can be a bit dodgy! So the next day i met up with fior (girl i met in NZ) and she took me around some of the areas and then took me for lunch at a peruvian place called Punta Sal where i tried Ceviche (fish slightly cooked in lemon with onion) ...