Ica to Lima A nice and lazy morning. Our great achievement, we booked our flights to Germany! The end is now booked. We caught a bus to Lima, sadly away from our oasis. The trip from Ica to Lima was straight from a science fiction movie. It was a desert, with a constant feel of ghost town all the way. There was a fog which made it hard to see very far, it reminded me of the 'radioactive or contaminated' air in the films. When we arrived in Lima, there was fog...

Sand boarding A great relaxed possibly lazy morning with breakfast at the hostel, sitting playing cards. we met a whole group of interesting travellers most of which would be coming sand-boarding with us later in the afternoon. Sarah decided on second breakfast while I picked up a beer with the others. We were a group from all over the world so the card games were very different. We found out about the possibility of a big BBQ dinner which included rum but we ne...

Nazca lines We had yet another night bus and it wasn't to bad this time. We got off groggy but ok. As we stepped out of the bus terminal we were greeted by many people wanting to take us anywhere. When Sarah said the airport, one guy offered for two sols. We got in and and so did a travel agent, one of his friends. We arrived around the corner at a hostel. 'The airport is closed until 8,' the guy explained. This was odd since lonely planet talks of flights fro...

Colca Canyon day 2 We thoroughly enjoyed our sleep-in till 3:45am, not, where we awoke and got ready to the light of head touches. We collected some snacks and with Huno in toe we headed down to the bridge. We had to head down a few hundred meters (altitude) to cross the river and start our ascent. It took a while to reach the bottom and as Sarah changed the length of her walking poles, we realised the moon was sitting on the horizon where the hike ended, the on...

Colca Canyon Its another early morning start at 2:40am, it's weird as that's actually a sleep in compared to yesterday! We get into the bus on this Saturday to find out we are the first. It's really nice service as they gave us a poloflece blanket each, they knew we wanted to sleep. For the next hour and a bit we drove around Arequipa waiting for and picking people up. It really was an interesting way to start the day. Not many times do you see early Saturday mo...