Nasca is famous for being the home to one of the worlds greatest archaelogical mysteries - the Nasca Lines. We spent one night here so that we could take a flight over these strange lines. They are a series of patterns and pictures etched into the ground across a wide area of flat desert. Some of the lines measure up to 32 miles in length but are still perfectly straight. From a small plane you get a great view of all the different animals, birds and insects depi...

The journey from Lima to Pisco gave me my first proper insight into the Peruvian landscape and I was very surprised to find that it was very baron and dusty - it was just like driving through a huge desert and very different to what I had seen in both Chile and Ecuador.Pisco itself is just a small little port town, which you can easily wander around in half an hour, taking in all the sights! Luckily we had only a few hours to pass before dinner, so a shower and a...

After a short early morning flight from northern Peru I arrived in Lim. In fact so early was the flight that I was the first person at the small airport in Piura - dont think that?s ever happened to me before! Shame there was nothing to do there for the two hours I had to wait for the flight, not a single shop to browse...thanks goodness for sudoko!I had arranged a transfer from the airport to my hostel after reading lots of horror stories about express kidnappin...