Day 9 - Flight over the Peruvian landscape to the ancient Inca city of Cuzco! Taking valium at 5am was not what I would call a fun start to the day, neither was the flight we had ahead which stopped on route in Juliaca just to prolong the pain for me. Ads was his usual star and helped me through the many tears, plus the flight attendant let me stand outside for a while on our first landing so that was good plus she gave a hot drink of Cocoa leaves to help with th...

Day 8 - An insight into the reality of life within Peru and a visit to see an ice mummy!! Today was to be a reality tour too see an insight into the hardships that Peruvians have to suffer but for me I just didn't have the energy and feeling bust left Ads to go on his own. Mum also had taken a turn for the worse so a doctor was called who filled her with many antibiotics and lotions and potions to get her better! Over to Ads, the Reality Tour!...... B LURB TO COM...

Day 6 & 7 - The hot springs of Chivay and the condors of the Colca Canyon!! An early start saw us heading out from Arequipa for a long days drive with a very appropriate named guide called Jesus, what were we letting ourselves in for!! Leaving the town and shanty towns behind it was into the hills and a real change in landscape, what we were experiencing now was more what we had expected of Peru, stunning & vast mountain landscapes & valleys all aroun...

Day 4/5 - Overnight bus to Peru's 2nd largest city in the mountains, Arequipa! Knowing that our bus for the night was to be a double decker with us on the top deck, I was somewhat dreading the experience and was half wondering if I would make the journey! It ended up not being total hell, it got pretty hot at one point and I almost exited out the window but thanks to Louisa whose second language is Spanish she managed to get the guy to open the door for abit whic...

Day 4 - The mystical ancient desert shapes of the Nazca Lines! The next day we headed towards the town of Nazca where the infamous Nazca lines exist, strange etched mystical shapes of spiders, monkeys, spacemen etc.. in the desert floor from over 2000 years ago. On route to the town we passed many old cars, battered & very overloaded trucks and the typical minute yellow taxi's, following the highway it was like we were on a road within an endless desert, it j...