Volunteering Part One: So, after a hair raising bus journey (anyone travelling to South America, NEVER travel with CIAL buses), we arrived tired and confused in the city of Trujillo where we would be spending the next month volunteering. Not a great looking city, it´s the third largest in Peru and more of an economic hub than a tourist attration, but that was ok as we were there to work! Arriving at the address we´d been given, we were ushed straight to bed...

wow two blog updates within two weeks, you are lucky people! Soon we´ll actually be up to date, a feat we haven´t managed since we left Bariloche in Argentina back in November. Without further adoo doo...We left Huacachina on an overnight bus bound for Cuzco (gringo capital of south america and the hopping off point for machu picchu). We arrived in the rain which was an ominous sign of things to come, and hopped in a tiny tiny taxi to our hostel. A quick point ...

Alot has happened in this part of the World in the last month with floods in peru stranding thousands of tourists in Machu Picchu only days after we left the site, and an earthquake off Chile. Luckily we weren´t affected by the latter although if you were paying attention to the British media you may have noticed a ´missing couple´ (now safe) called Andre and Laura. Check our facebook photos and you will see us partying with them in Huanchaco where we were tak...

Right ho, so we´ve left this blog a little while, mostly due to laziness it has to be said, but we´re now settled in our volunteering home in Trujillo, Northern Peru, and have free internet on tap. Ah, free internet, how much we take you for granted, if the computer screen didn´t give out electric shocks I would kiss it. So, the last entry was from lovely Arequipa where we spent a week admiring the white stone architecture, looking around cloistered monast...

Well guys, Tim´s still recovering from his nasty bought of Salmonella so i´m afraid it´s back to me for the next blog entry. So, after Potosi and the mountain of death we headed for Sucre for a few more Spanish lessons and then onto La Paz, the ol administrative capital of Bolivia. It´s 3660m above sea level which makes for some interesting side effects: mostly pins and needles in the face and hands, a general feeling of tiredness and lots of trips to the t...