Get Your Thermals On!! ..... On Wed 13th July, we left for the Colca Canyon at 8am and were picked up by the tour company 'Colca Trek' in a 16 seater minibus. We were expecting there to be a coach full but it was just Ray and I and an American couple from Boston called Matt and Erica. Our guide for the next two days was a lovely girl called Salome. As we left Arequipa, Salome started to explain to us about the history of the volcanos; El Misti and Chacha...

Don't mess with El Misti! ... The trip is amazing so far... once recovered from the lurgy, we explored central Lima..absolutely fascinating..a city of haves and have nots...extreme beauty, fun and beautiful people coupled with the most abject poverty. Two blocks away from the lovely parks of colourful fountains doing a spectacular display to classical peruvian music there was a woman in rags breast feeding her baby who was wrapped up in a threadbare green w...