Chan Chan and Moche culture. Again, up for breakfast ready to be picked up for our full day tour of two ancient cultures of Peru, the Moche culture and temples and the great city of Chan Chan in the afternoon. As we got on and headed into the city, the driver informed us that large parts of the city were closed as it was Peru's independence day two days later. Forty minute drive later and we arrive in town, this only took 20 minutes to walk yesterday. We chang...

Trujillo Welcome to Trijillo I'm sure it was ment to be but we arrived at 4:45am. We got to the hotel at 5:20am extremely lucky for us we could get our room and sleep till 9:30am. We calmly ate our breakfast to some odd entertainment, a crazy little dog ripping apart pooh bear!! Made for an interesting conversation. This place was nice but odd, it only really had cold water and the cable was going to be fixed the day after we leave, just the usual. We walked f...

last day in Huaraz Our last day in our house really felt like it. We rose up to the final dismantling of the house and later our room. I'm sure it's not usual but we put the sheets in to wash, put the mattress on the wall and started taking the bed apart. We helped Dirk with a few things and agreed to meet up with him for a coffee at midday. We had a lot to achieve before then, Sarah had to run a few errands including another attempt to get her dress fixed (ta...

Downhill mountain biking We won a raffle at a pub quiz whilst we were doing our volunteer work and the prize was to have one free day with the adventure agency, Galaxia Expeditions. We visited their office and decided we would do a free day of downhill mountain biking. We arrived at 9am and slowly but surely were decked out with elbow and knee pads and a helmet each. Next our bikes were loaded into the back and onto the roof of a taxi and Andrew, myself and th...

Day three, down the valley After we went to bed, Sarah had trouble getting warm inside her sleeping bag, fleece liner and silk liner. After a while she wakes me up to see if I'm cold. We are at 4250m sleeping in a tent, and it's below zero outside before windchill. I'm not and after a while she came to the conclusion my sleeping bag is better. We swap, and i got out of a hot sleeping bag to jump in a really cold sleeping bag. Therefore it was not doing any heati...