Up early for our early start and we were off to the Colca Canyon and to hopefully see the Andean Condors. There's never a certainty to see them but we were hopeful of seeing one.After meeting our travelling companions, 1 NZ, 1 Aussie, 4 Poms (3 ex NZ), 1 Mexican and Helen (Bridget Jones) we commenced our trip.We stopped to try coca biscuits. Coca is the leaf of a tree in South America that they use to handle altitude sickness and is banned in every other co...

Well after a rather uneventful 10 hours on a bus from Nazca we arrived in Arequipa.Confusing thought of the day:Is it certain nationalities that are particularly rude or just insensitive to other people?It appears to be a specific type of tourist that pretty much think the world revolves around them. Two women on our bus had obviously decided they weren't happy with their seats (one was actually in ours and seemed peeved when we asked her to move), which wer...

Well we arrived in Nazcas on a late afternoon bus a little bit apprehensive as we hadn't organised a flight over the Nazca lines the whole reason we had decided to come to Nazca.The Nazca lines were discovered about 80 years ago when a guy flew over Nazca and saw all these lines and figures in the desert. Up until then Nazca was pretty much a very small town with few people. Now it has over 22000 people purely as a result of tourism from the lines.Upon arri...

Well we arrived in Ica after a nice bus ride on Cruz Del Sur.Cruz del Sur is one of the best buslines in Peru and we can understand why.They so need these buses in Australia. They are double decker buses with seats that recline back 160 degrees! Cost us 60 soles ($22) for both of us for 5 hours.Surprising highlight of the trip was the Inca Cola. It actually outsells Coke in South America. It's flourescent yellow and tastes just like Snow Top. I loved it....

Well Lima has been a bit of a surprise for us. Being a city of 7 million people we didn´t really expect to enjoy it.Probably the most notable part of our flight from Guayaquil was the absolute worst cup of coffee we have ever tasted. Powdered coffee followed with powdered milk even the huge amout of sugar we put in didn't make it drinkable!! Starting to wonder if all their good coffee is exported overseas with their chocolate.After arriving (and believing...