After 10 hours on the overnight bus, we arrived in the early hours at the beautiful city of Arequipa. It's nestled among three volcanoes - el Misti, Picchu Picchu and Chachani. All of them are covered in snow which made for some wicked scenery. The city itself it beautiful as well, alot of the buildings are made from a white volcanic rock called Sillar, which is why Arequipa is also known as the white city. I ate a whole packet of biscuits for breakfast and we ...

After checking out of our hostel in Pisco, we all climbed into taxis to take us to Paracas, a small port town near Pisco. We all climbed into a boat to head out to the Ballestas Islands, known as the Galapagos of Peru. First stop was to check out a 180m long candelabra carved into solid rock on the side of one of the islands. It has been there for over 1000 years and was carved 80cm deep by the Paracas people. There are loads of theories as to why they used a ...

After a nice sleep in, I got up to have a quick breakfast before being picked to go to Nazca's local airport. We arrived at the airport completely psyched to get into our tiny Cessna and explore the Nazca lines only to find out there was a delay and we'd have to wait two hours. Juan (our completely dodgy tour guide) suggested we pay him 40 soles each and he would quickly take us out to visit the Chauchilla cemetery, about 45 mins out of town. We figured we'd hav...

A nice leisurely morning, even though Shirley and dawn were awake at sparrows fart. Shirley was feeling a bit under the weather (we've all had some serious stomach upsets here) so Dawn and I went to explore Lima for a couple of hours before we got on the bus. Dawn left the navigation up to me...fatal mistake there Dawny, Georgia's sense of direction couldn't be more useless, ask briar. So off we headed in the wrong direction. After about 20 minutes of scratchin...

Another day spent of the road, on our way to capital city Lima! Thankfully this was a luxury bus, and I´m pretty sure I got the best seat - upstairs and right at the front. All I could see it the road and views in front of me. We left Trujillo and followed the PanAmerican highway for 9.5 hours to Lima. It was really scenic once we hit the coast, and there was such a neat contrast between the yellow sand mountains (check out the photos, they´d be rad for sli...