The next morning we planned for a full day hike in the jungle, armed with wellies, raincoats and high-strength mozzie spray this time! After breakfast, we took a short walk from the lodge to see a family of Duski-Titi monkeys, who woke us up, but as the water is low at this time of the year they were so high in the trees we couldnt get a really good look at them, but we did see them jumping from tree to tree! We took the boat upstream and began hiking through th...

We caught a very early flight to Iquitos, the main city in the Amazon Basin and around half of Peru is in the Amazon Basin. When we arrived, our guide, Rudy, met us at the airport and we made our way to the harbour where we boarded the boat, with the rest of the staff. We were to be the only guests at the Lodge for our entire stay!!!! The boat trip took about 4 hours along the Amazon River. We stopped at a small village along the way to 'stretch our legs'...b...

We arrived back in Lima and decided to head to Miraflores to find a hotel, a suburb of Lima, a little out of the centre and decidely nicer and safer! We enjoyed having a wonder around the parks where the artisans display their work and drinking coffee in the cafes which has been really relaxing after a hectic couple of weeks. We even went to the cinema to see Failure to Launch, which we enjoyed - it was nice to hear some English and to perv over Matthew McConnau...

The night we arrived in Pisco we met up with some Irish girls and some of the people from the tour agency for dinner. We tried some of the local delicacies; fish soup and calamari - even Holly had this, still can't get her to eat mushrooms though! Then it was off to paint the town red, at a salsa bar...well it was actually a Chinese restaurant with the lights turned down and we were the only people there! We had a few drinks and the guys from tour agency set a...

After our flight we headed to the bus station and caught a bus to Ica, then took a short ride to Huacachina. This is a small oasis town in the middle of the desert and is surrounded by HUGE sand dunes. We took a trip on a dune buggy through the dunes, which was far from relaxing! The driver was a maniac, which meant we had lots of fun! We sped over the dunes reaching huge mountains of sand and then sped at full pelt down vertical cliffs and up huge banks of s...