My first overnight bus experience in Peru was certainly one to remember...and this time for good reasons. Although we had to wait around until nearly midnight to get on the bus, when we got on it it was pure luxury. We sat on te upper level, which for starters was an improvement on all other buses and normally there is just one level...and then when we got to our seats we discovered that they were flash leather seats, fully reclining, with foot rests. It was just...

Nasca is famous for being the home to one of the worlds greatest archaelogical mysteries - the Nasca Lines. We spent one night here so that we could take a flight over these strange lines. They are a series of patterns and pictures etched into the ground across a wide area of flat desert. Some of the lines measure up to 32 miles in length but are still perfectly straight. From a small plane you get a great view of all the different animals, birds and insects depi...

The journey from Lima to Pisco gave me my first proper insight into the Peruvian landscape and I was very surprised to find that it was very baron and dusty - it was just like driving through a huge desert and very different to what I had seen in both Chile and Ecuador.Pisco itself is just a small little port town, which you can easily wander around in half an hour, taking in all the sights! Luckily we had only a few hours to pass before dinner, so a shower and a...

After a short early morning flight from northern Peru I arrived in Lim. In fact so early was the flight that I was the first person at the small airport in Piura - dont think that?s ever happened to me before! Shame there was nothing to do there for the two hours I had to wait for the flight, not a single shop to browse...thanks goodness for sudoko!I had arranged a transfer from the airport to my hostel after reading lots of horror stories about express kidnappin...

Rather than paying the somewhat hefty $400 for a flight from Ecuador to Lima I decided to make the long journey by bus. I wasnt in any particualr hurry to get to Peru so I had plenty of time to break up the journey.After a 12 hour overnight bus, which actually ended up taking 17 hours (!) I arrived in a small town called Loja, in southern Ecuador. In itself it is quite a nice little town, but there is not much to do sightseeing-wise and after one day I had pretty...