Date: 28th and 29th October 2006: Mel &Matt: We were up early this morning and left the little town of Chivay at 6:30 to head on our way to the city of Cusco which was the Capital of the Incan Empire in their time.  We stopped at the same local restaurant place for coffee on the way out of the Colca Canyon reserve and all posed in front of Doris for a group picture taken by our driver!! It was only a short stop here before we continued our Journey onto C...

Date: 25th and 26th October We packed up camp this morning to head on our way to Arequipa but not before driver Steve cooked us a fry up breakfast which went down a treat, especially after our karaoke jenga the night before. It was a long 7 hour drive, we passed by a long beach and stopped for lunch on it that had a lot of destroyed houses and hotels, Mike told us that this are had been hit by a tidal wave in 1991. The afternoon was quite a bumpy ride ...

27th October 2006 We left Arequipa at 5.30 in the morning on our way to the Colca Canyon. We got in to the national park at about 7.00 and had breakfast at this small locally run restaurant, which did pretty good food and coffee. There was this young local peruvian boy sat outside this place charging 1 sole (20p) to have a photo with him, he looked so cute and had a bad cold so I felt sorry for him so got Matt to take a photo of me with him arrr, you could s...

Date: 24th October 2006 Russ: We were up at 8 this morning which was quite a lie in compared to other starts we have had recently and we left Nazca at 9 to travel to a very small beach town called Puerto Inca (this place was originally the Inca port town and was one of the many starting points of the Inca trail leading to the Great Machu Picchu). On the way to this place we had a short stop at this cemetry, which had open graves with mummies in them fro...

Date: 23rd October 2006 We were up next morning after night under the stars in the desert at half 6 as we were cold and damp because it only rained during the night, how random is that for a desert that hardly ever rains!!! We packed up our stuff and jumped into the sand buggies to head back to where the truck was so we could move onto our next stop on the trip Nasca!! Had a cool trip back to the base in these buggies well going up and down over the s...