The excitement was at fever pitch as we rose early that morning heading to Guayaquil's international airport. It was the first time in a long time that I was as giddy as 7-year old full up with Coca-Cola. Over the months that I have been travelling, everything that I have seen and experienced has been amazing but your eyes tend to get lazy to the things that you see, where some of the places look similar to something that you may have seen weeks previous. But thi...

Crossing the border from Peru into Ecuador was painful yet again. We had waited nearly two hours on the side of the road in Mancora waiting for a bus which we thought would never come, but thankfully it did and just in the nick of time as a certain guy who was waiting the same bus was driving me up the bleeding walls. You these kind of people that ask the most annoying, personal, intrusive questions. What age are you? Why did you leave your job? How much is the t...

Yet again, we weren't treated to a good bus journey from Trujillo to Mancora as I was first hoping. In fact, this was to be the worst ever bus journey that I have ever been on in my life and I'll begin to explain why. I'm was fecked with whatever bug/infection I got on the Santa Cruz trek, so my energy levels were still at an all time low, shivering and falling asleep at every slightly comfortable moment. I slept on the chair in the bus station as we waited to bo...

Next on the map was a place called Trujillo that we were to visit. To be honest, it was really a stop off point as we wanted to get to Mancora, a small beach town on the coast but it was necessary to stop there in Trujillo and to change buses to go any further. Plus, no one likes 24 hour bus journeys. We went to the bus station in Huaraz and booked an overnight bus with Expressa 14 and fair play to the lady there, she put us downstairs on the bus, in semi cama ...

To be honest, I couldnt wait to get out of that cloud called 'Garua' that covered Lima whilst I was there and just to get back to nature. The 'garua' covers the Peruvian coast for something like 8-9 months of the year, leaving the people of Lima, the Limons! Having to suffer the SAD syndrome, feck that, I'm getting out of here I thought. Anyways, it had always been my plan to do as much trekking as possible in Peru whilst I was there, so it was time to get my ars...