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...

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 ...