We arrived in ica after a particularly awful bus journey and hoppped in a cab straight to Huaccachina which is a desert oasis about 3 km from Ica. Again we had another tourism taxi driver who took us to a hostel he reccommended, it was ok as there are only about 10 hostels in the whole place, which is really tiny. The hostel was ok, we had a double room with en suite for cheap and the breakfast was really good, lots of fruit and cooked eggs and bread. We had a lo...

After our fancy bus journey, we arrive in Nazca at 6 in the morning, we decided to hang around the bus terminal until the airport opened, we didn’t have long to wait and took a taxi to a tour operator. Every taxi driver in Peru also moonlight as tour operators themselves, trying to sell you excursions to different places, it’s really weird. Anyway we booked our flight; quite cheap actually only 50 pound each and were driven to the airport. The plane was a 6 s...

Since we had more time than we expected following Bolivia we decided to alternate our route a little and head south before working our way back up to Cusco. So we took the bus from Puno to Arequipa and the self proclaimed Canyon Country (More on this later!). We had high hopes of Arequipa and were expecting a bit of a party atmosphere, however when we arrived at our hostel it was pretty empty and there wasnt any noticable buzz about the place. The city itself was...

We took the 3hr bus from La Paz to Copacabana on Lake Titikaka at another bargain basement price of 1.50p! When we got to the lake initially we were all told to get off the bus and board a small boat whilst the bus was transferred across the lake via a large barge thing... all very strange!! Anyway arrived in Copacabana which is a quaint little place not much happening but nice all the same. We located a cheap hostel again 1.50GBP each per night which is crazy ch...