Our bus to Bolivia (La Paz) seemed to be a clue to what La Paz was to hold. It didn't look unsafe but very old and worn. We chucked our bags on with no identification and took our musty seats in numbers 19 and 20. We were once again the only English people on the bus so when we changed buses and got to the boarder etc we had to follow the crowd and hope for the best. The boarder crossing was the easiest I've ever done, I think. there was a station to exchange...

PUNO.............. that's about how interesting a place it was. That blank space right there lol. Na I should really be a bit more kind. It has the highest Lake in the world and it is bloody massive. Anyway, start at the beginning. We left Arequipa for an early bus ride (7.30am). Our taxi driver was standard - dodging other cars, overtaking on blind bends, taking on lorries, beeping horns.....safe to say we got to the bus station in one piece. The bus ride...

The bus journey from Cuzco to Arequipa was much less exciting than the last bus journey! We arrived safe, sound and very tired at 7am into Arequipa bus station. We had some trouble finding our hostel (as did our taxi driver who asked policemen, shop owners and random people on the street! We gave up and wandered around until we found it instead). Arequipa Backpackers is really secure - its nestled in behind gates, you have to ring a doorbell to get into the inne...

We set off from our hostel in Huacachina at 5pm (our bus being at 6pm and we wanted to get there early). Our first little qualm we had was when our taxi driver asked us which bus company and when we told him "Cial" he merely laughed in response......okayyyyy......The bus compound (and I mean compound - they lock the gates inbetween people entering and leaving) was in Ica, the nereby town and it didnt take long to get there so we arrived at 5.25ish. The woman in t...

So three days have gone by in a blur! We left Lima on the 4th and spent 5 hours on a lovely bus - air con and a little clingfilmed sandwich handed out half way. Cracking. Once you left central Lima the landscape to my right turned incredibly barren and desert-like. Some of the little towns we went through were fascinating and some I was glad to be on a one-way mirrored window bus haha. The landscape to my left turned into the pacific sea (as we were trundling al...