22nd March 2007 - Day 356 Decided stupidly to head off somewhere new! Caught a taxi to Ica from there then caught a bus to Cerro Azul to relax on the beach!! After a few hours of travelling stopped on the main road at the edge of the town of Cerro Azul, which we thought was going to be a beach side quiet retreat but ended up being a little too quiet .. nowhere was open and there was nothing to do, no shops, no restaurants to eat!! Possibly the most dead town in ...

1st March 2007 - Day 335 Checked in at about 3am after the longest customs queue in the world ever to Barranco´s backpackers in Barranco south of the city centre - promptly crashed out - it was 4 am Brazilian time. First day and it was back to thinking about booking things up for the following week - Inca Trail etc. First chilled in Barranco a small suburb beach resort south of Lima. Pretty green and flowery square and churches - not quite what we´d expected ...