Hola all! Hope everyone in NZ is surviving the cold blast that we've seen on the NZ Herald pages! Brrr. Not make you all jealous and curse those chillblains, frosty pavements, feeding out on the farm, mittens, hats and winter jackets, but we are currently in Huacachina, Ica, Peru, where it has been a balmy mid 20's both yesterday and today - shorts and t-shirt weather! But before we arrived here, I left off the last blog in Piura, in northern Peru.... ....So stu...

Hi again, as we are stuck for an extra day in Piura, it seems as good a time as any to get up-to-date with our blog! So from our hostal in Cuenca we taxi out to the bus terminal and find a bus leaving for Loja, another 5 or so hours further south at 7.45am so we grab two tickets for $7 each and wait for our bus to arrive. This time we're travelling with San Luis. All the buses look nice and new from the outside, but inside this bus its a bit run down and rattles...