After the boat trip we arrived in Lima, the capital of Peru, in the early evening. We went straight to the hotel and got ready for our final meal together. (It turned out to be the first of many final meals over the next few weeks!) Dee, whose arm was now in a plaster cast having broken a bone in her hand, was leaving in the early hours of the next morning so it was indeed our last meal as a whole group. I had been put in a room with Shanna, another teacher ... a...

We arrived in Huacachina at lunch time. Huacachina is an oasis in the middle of the Peruvian desert. We took blankets from the truck and had a picnic lunch next to the lake under palm trees. Our last truck lunch together. After lunch we packed away and got ready for our sandboarding!! We were all really excited! We divided up into two sand buggies and set off. It was sooooooooo much fun! We went up and down the sand dunes really fast, it was like being on a roll...

We arrived in Nazca at lunchtime. Tonight I decided to go in a tent as i wanted to try the new ones out. We put the tents up while people prepared lunch. It was a nice sunny day so we sat on the grass and ate our sandwiches. Our guide arrived just as we finished lunch. He was taking us to the Chauchilla Cemetry, here we would see mummies older than 2000 years old. Nazca is a desert and it only rains there 2 houras a year. It is because of this the mummies are sti...

We were up at 5am ready to leave by 5:30am. All this so we would be in Peuto Inca by 2pm so the boys could watch the football final of the Copa America. We arrived at the beach, had lunch and then sat in the bar to watch the football. Lyndsay, Collette and Dee were upgrading to a room instead of a tent but it was a 4 bed room so I joined them as well. It was a nice little room with a sea view. For the rest of the afternoon we sat on the roof of the truck admirin...

We left Chivay in the morning and arrived in Arequipa by lunchtime. After putting our bags in our room we walked to find a museum. It is a museum about an Inca mummy that was found about 15 years ago. First of all they showed a video about the people who found the mummy and also about why she was there. She was a sacrifice to the gods and was only discovered because a nearby Volcano was erupting and had melted the ice on top of the mountain revealing her tomb. ...