Trujillo and Mancora Trujillo was a lovely quaint town, with well organised streets and a few colonial buildings and churches dotted around, however the main attractions are the ruins to the Chan Chan and Moche civilisations which existed before the Incas. We stopped off at about 7am, walked straight into a hostel which organized us a day tour to Chan Chan and Moche land, luggage storage and an overnight bus to Mancora. Wonderful! We'll take it!! Before the to...

Lima The capital of Peru! What else could we expect other than wide streets and city plazas lined with beautiful old colonial buildings - we were not disappointed. Our first night we had dinner at what would be an equivalent to the local pub and watched the football match with the locals cheering away from their tables...not to mention the non paying customers who had the noses and hands cupping their eyes cheering from the street outside. The next day we took...

Nazca and Huaccachina We reached Cusco bus station at 5:30pm and as luck would have it the bus was late so we managed to still get tickets for the 5:30 bus to Nasca- haha (similar to African time here in S. America). Now in Peru they give new meaning to travelling salesmen. On each of our bus trips in Peru we have started our journey with some guy in the front very passionately selling his special tea, granny's knitted mittens or sacred something. (did I say VER...

We arrived in Cusco at 6am by bus, dashed around the city to buy train tickets and entrance tickets to Machu Pichu - pretty expensive affair I tell you... Anyway after that we walked around the city admiring its beautiful squares and mountain side views before hopping in a collectivo (same as a SA taxi and about just as full with Lamas, chickens, my luggage strapped to the roof) to the train station (approx 1:30hr away from Cusco, in a town called Ollantaytambo! ...

This was our first stop in Peru- the land of Inka's! Almost every city or town has an Inka's ruin for you to tote your camera at. We wasted no time in organising a tour that would drive us through Colca Canyon from Arequipa. Day 1 was not too impressive as we made our way past the cloud covered El Misty (the iconic volcano mountain just on the outskirts of Arequipa). Every day the locals of Arequipa experience mild shakings as the active volcano releases pressu...