Our appetite wetted we decided to continue north leading us to Chiclayo.A major coastal town and the centre of the Lambayeque archeological sites of Sipan and Tucume. We decided to explore these sites independently in the view to delve deeper into the fascinating history of this once rich land. A shared taxi ride (known as a combi) took us to Lambayeque, where the Museum of Sipan is located. A deeply interesting museum containing artifacts and human remains fro...

An 8 hour coach journey brought us to the city of Trujillo. Met at the coach station by Carlos and Jhonnie who our hosts. Jhonnie and his family kindly let us stay in their home, although they didn´t speak a word of English, we still managed to communicate using various methods of sign language :) An evening spent on the steps of his home chatting about cultural differences, religion, veggie food, what we did for a living, family etc. Singing could be hea...

Straight from the jungle to the mad metropolis of Lima. ...not intending to stop here for any historical enlightenment but pleasantly surprised! Lima central, otherwise known as Plaza De Armas is extremely well organised. Buildings of importance at the time of being constructed by the Spanish bordering the main central focal area for rest, relaxation and admiration, gives Lima an authentic European atmosphere. We were accompanied by Miguel, who guided us to the...

A quadrupled charged taxi drive, stranded with no money, teary eyed anguished Dal, delayed speedboat with a decapitated toed peruvian, toilet half the size of Harry Potters closet paved our eagerly anticipated journey to Peru! *A sigh of relief* Arriving to the chaos of Iquitos port to the stress of our backpacks being passed overhead to numerous awaiting taxi drivers (piggy in the middle- our midrifts are expanding slightly!!). Shouts of `F%$K off`and ´th...

Happy New Year! Wishing you all a prosperous, loving and dream filled 2007. We celebrated our new year in Columbia, unfortunately there is no correspondance between this date and our passport visa as we were made to trek 20 minutes to the Airport in the Blistering heat, 3 times!! It was quite hilarious actually, all sweaty with no means of communication we managed to fathom that firstly we had arrived out of office hours, the second attempt left us with a broken ...