We arrived into Cusco at about 6am; we seem to like seeing places for the first time at dawn!!! Our main aim of the day was to pay the balance on our Inca Trail Trek. So we headed to the office and met a few others who were going the same day as us. The general feeling amongst us all seemed to be nervous but excited about what lay ahead! Once we had this paid we took a wander about Cusco. The next day we set about hiring our walking boots and poles for the tra...

After our 12 hour over night bus, we arrived into Arequipa at 6.30am....at an increased altitude of 2328m. We got to our hostel and somehow resisted the urge to have a nap!!! Instead we went for a wander around the old part of Arequipa and then met up with Pat and Sophie, some friends from our sailing trip. Together we headed to the Mueseum Sanctuarios Andinos, to see Juanita, 'the ice princess', who was an Incan maiden sacrifice. She was frozen on top of Ampa...

After our journey from Pisco, we arrived into Ica and made the short taxi journey to Huacachina, an amazing oasis in the desert. On arrival to our hostel, we got offered cheaper accommodation if we wanted to go on the sand boarding-dune buggying tour...so we signed up and a little under an hour later were on our way into the desert!!! After zipping, jumping, flying through the dunes we stopped at a few smaller dunes and gave sand boarding a go. Shane did stand...

After our epic journey from Mancora, we checked into our hostel in Pisco at 10pm and booked our tour for the next morning to Ballestas Islands in the Paracas National Reservation. Even though the last thing we felt like doing was getting up at 6.30am...we figured we should seize the chance, so we could move on if we wanted to. Pisco is a recovering city, as 80% of the city was destroyed in 2007 earthquake. As you can see from the pictures the city is only star...

Our trip from Cuenca across the border to Mancora was a 9 hour journey from the beautiful green mountain to the burnt out, dry coastline of Peru's border and Mancora. This border crossing was possibly our easiest and quickest only about 30 minuets and no fees. We arrived into Mancora at about 3pm and grabbed a tuk tuk to our accommodation Kon Tiki bungalows. The tuk tuk journey was a little bit of an adventure up a dusty path to a ridge overlooking Mancora. At...