Date: 22nd October 2006Ballestas Islands at Paracas - Morning tourDesert tour at the Huacachina Oasis - Afternoon/overnight stay We had a very early start today at 5:45 and headed off in Doris to a little town called Paracas where we caught boats to go on our tour of the Ballestas Islands. This was a really fun trip, we saw sea lions, pelicans and penguins and there was tons of birds flying around. On the way we also saw the Candelabra sign in the sand on th...

Date: 19th October - 21st October 2006We were up at 5:30 this morning setting off on our way to the capital of Peru Lima. We stopped for lunch which was put out by Rusty himself with the help of Pete as it was their turn as cook team, Rusty had been shopping for it the day before while we were doing our white water rafting (the lucky b***** got away without doing a dinner though as we are back in a Hotel tonight.) We arrived in Lima at 4:30 ish, it is a big ...

Date: 5th October - 7th October 2006 We left Misahualli at 8 in the morning to start our journey out of the jungle and onto another town called Baños which is famous for its hot springs, hence the name Baños meaning baths! I sat up front with the driver Steve for the first part of the journey out of the jungle, Matt stayed in the back as he thought the front may make him a bit car sick. It was cool being up front, had good view of the roads ahe...

Date: 16th October - 18th October 2006 Next morning we packed up our tents ready for our Journey on to Huaraz and I had to carry that damn chest again down the stairs man it kills the old shoulder muscles. Just before lunch time we stopped at some more ruins, this time they were Sechin ruins who were around a much longer time ago between 1500BC and 100AD. This was an ancient tribe who worshiped the mountains. The site was a big temple with engraving on the o...

2nd October - 4th October 2006Well after an 8 hour scenic drive through Ecuador we arrived in the Jungle in a town called Misahualli where we were staying for the night! Was such a nice little town and had lots of wild little monkeys hehe, they were cute but always trying to grab what you had in your hands, we were all amazed to see the monkeys because we arent used to it, a local guy with two dogs picked a monkey by its tail and was teasing the dogs with it...