Shortly after arriving in Cusco and meeting up with Charlotte and Kieran (origninally met in Venezuella) who we knew were there already, we started looking for our tour to Machu Picchu. It didn´t take long to find out that the Inca Trail was fully booked for the next couple of weeks due to it having been closed for maintainence during February. We booked an alternative, the Inca Jungle trek which takes a different route and ends up after three days in Aguas Cali...

There really is only really one reason that tourists head for Nasca and that is to visit to see the Nasca Lines. These are mysterious lines that have been cleared on the floor of the desert over 2000 years ago and can still be clearly seen today. We decided that we would take the slightly more expensive option of flying over the lines in a small airplane. The flight lasted approximately 30 minutes taking in the 14 more obvious of the over 300 different patterns ...

After leaving one incredibly hard to spell town it was a relief to arrive in Ica! Our time in an easy to pronounce town was short as we jumped in a mototaxi to Huacachina approximately five minutes after arriving. We were bound for a natural oasis in the middle of the desert. It really is just like the kind of oasis you see in the movies. Water, surrounded by some palm trees, (add a couple of buildings in this case) surrounded by sand dunes. We were asked by on...

We arrived in Trujillo after another joyous night bus with the last 4 hours being plagued by the obligatory Latin American music played through distorted tinny speakers. Trujillo is a main city and approximatly 15km from the coastal resort of Huanchaco where we are staying. We were told we should come here to see the ¨pre-historic surfer dudes¨. These are single man crafts made of reeds that are used to fish in the surf. The same technique has been used for...

Whilst sitting in a resturant on our first night we were waiting or our food when something caught my eye. I spotted someone I thought I knew... Katie thought that it could be someone who just looked the same but I wasn´t so sure. We went for a drink later and I saw the same person sitting in Mancora surf club bar. I had to go in and find out. I looked at him sitting down and he looked back at me, I was almost sure as he gave me a tentative Hola. I asked the ba...