These last few days have been rather unproductive as we waited for Rory to recover from his illness. We watched about a million DVDs and a whole season of 24 in 2 days! We had a couple of outings to the local shopping centre and went back to the Gold Museum so Rory could see it. The lowlight was watching Pirates of the Caribbean 3 which was absolutely shocking! I have however had excellent Spanish practice over the last week chatting to Daniel the chauffeur and...

The saga didn't end with yesterdays blog! At around 10pm with Rory's temperature still not dropping Luis insisted that we take him to the doctors. So just like something out of a GCSE roleplay I had to explain his simptoms to the doctor! Rory, who was less than amused at being there anyway as he just wanted to be in bed, was questioned and prodded a bit more by the doctor and then we left for home again. In the morning Rory certainly wasn't feeling up to heading...

We arrived at Lucho Suarez�s house at around 730pm after a nightmareishly long bus journey from Ica. We were greeted with huge hospitality such as offering to have his maid do our laundry, the instant key to our hearts on this trip! We were given some time to unpack and shower relax before meeting our guide for the following day. Vilko our guide is an interesting character as he has Croatian and German parentage, grew up in La Paz and Peru and went to ...

A few days relaxing in an oasis sandboarding, dune buggying and playing with Marvin the monkey!

Seeing the Nazca lines