After a 28 rather than 25 hour bus journey I arrived here last night rather hot and tired! En route we were stopped about five times for passport checks, had someone removed just after the border by the police and reversed up a dual carriageway before being pulled over by the police! The scenery was stunning - extremely dry sand dunes to acres of banana plantations to lush floodplains. As always, managed a few hours sleep overnight which passed the time tog...

Just to let you all know that I have in Lima! Arrived last night at 7pm, 2am english time rather exhausted and a wee bit daunted- the excitment on the journey was being upgraded to business class which was brillliant. Lovely because met a fellow solo traveller at the lodge called Amanda so we spent the day wandering around Lima. Amazing because she is doing exactly the same route as me (S america to NZ to oz to SE asia) so altho heading off separate ways t...