Hello Mancora! Yes your weather is very sunny and not too hot, but your beach still leaves much to be desired... For some reason people kept finding dead animals on the beach; birds, fish, a sealion. I never saw any of these alleged animals, but I wouldn't doubt their existance! Don't get me wrong, I had a great time in Mancora, but more due to the hostel and the people, as the sea didn't look like somewhere I wanted to swim really. Our first night we witnessed ...

It turns out that unlike what Paddington bear had told me in my childhood, Lima isn't, in fact, deepest darkest Peru. There's actually nothing deep or dark about Lima, apart from maybe the sky as its constantly grey and slightly drizzly! My main reason for coming to Lima was to visit my lovely friend Erika who I met while I was staying in Santiago taking my Spanish classes, as she lives in Lima. As to why the others wanted to go, I don't really know! We had only...

So I said a sad farewell to all my little Arequipa friends and set off in a taxi with Jeffrey and Chris (Switzerland and South Africa) to the bus station (I did cry, but only a tiny bit!). At the bus station we also met Aimee, an English girl who'd been staying at the hostel for a while, and her friend Maria, so we all set off to Huacachina together! Huacachina is basically an oasis with a small lake, surrounded by a ring of buildings, surrounded by giant sand d...

Arequipa, the city I've spent the longest in on my whole trip, the final wild rover, how can I sum up my time here... 6 weeks of working behind the bar, most fun job I've ever had! 4 go karting sessions, each one becoming progressively more dangerous than the last, people being forced off track and crashing into each other, not that the wild rover staff are in any way competitive! 6 different fancy dress costumes: elf (half way to christmas), hippie (60's), hu...

Staying out and going to bed at 5am when you have a bus to catch at 8am clearly isn't a good idea, as we both nearly missed the bus, and then felt like absolute crap for the whole journey to Cusco, which also took 4 hours longer than we'd been told, and involved changing bus 3 times! We did cross Lake Titicaca, the highest lake in the world, in little boats, while our bus went across on a big one, which was pretty cool, and the lake stretches as far as the eye ca...