Hi all - What a week!? We have suffered our first lost in translation this week, more of that later...on the 14th we left our cosy Hostel in Lima and headed off on an 8 hour (north) overnight bus ride, destination Huraz, Ancash.? Haraz (pronounced Whereaz) is very different to Lima, the region has suffered several devastating disasters. In 1941, a flood originating from Lake Palcacocha in the Cojup Valley destroyed the northern half of the city of Huraz, killing ...

Hola from sunny Lima! What a week, we landed in Lima Airport on Monday night and have had a blast ever since. Lima is great, the town is alive with the hustle and bustle of the 8 million people that live here, most of them drive taxi´s or are on a bus at any one time so the streets are a little crowded! The continuous tooting, hooting and hollering from the taxi´s and the bus negotiators ( they hang out the door negtotiating the best price for the jo...