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it's just 4 hours away from Lima.  The landscape there is very beautiful. You can also visit the islands and see the wildlife of the Pacific Ocean. The best is going there in our summer (Jan - April). Watch out! it's always windy

Well Peru hasn't been that kind to us as of yet.  Unfortunately we got stung at the border crossing with about $40 worth of fake notes.  We didn't realise until the landlady at our hotel looked at us with a sorry expression and said "Falsa".  It is a word that we didn't know until Peru, but we've heard it being used a lot recently. We were able to fob some of it off on a local lady (felt a bit guilty, but she'll just give it to the next gringo... a...

I guess I should have known it before, but now I m certain of it. Life is all about choices: there is no bad or good, because at the end they all making us a bit better or a bit wiser for sure. I have now been " on the road" for about 2 months, and my eyes have seen so much, more than I could have ever imagined, yet, I´m hungry for more and sometimes i woudl love to give up my sleep to see more, more and more. I know I can´t and I will have to make a choice, and I think so far, I m happy w...

Thursday - We made it up to the Cruz Del Sur bus station well ahead of schedule - so well ahead of shedule that it was shut!  It also happend to be in a red light district - think a South American King´s Cross!  Fortunately, the taxi driver let us wait in his cab for 40 minutes until the lights came-on and the bus station opened-up!  We didn´t notice straight away but there was a car of police parked near us, so there wouldn´t have been any problems - although it was a nervo...

An Oasis in the Desert....... Go there for Sand Boarding and hammering around the dunes in buggies. I teamed up with ol mate Daryll from the bus. A few hours in the sun out on the dunes was easily enough. The buggies hammer, no air to report but some good sideways action. The sand boarding is cool, very similar to snow boarding in slushy conditions. Never had so much sand in my mouth, pockets, ears, nose.... Thank god the hostel had a pool, bar and chilled out gardens, all in the midd...

And the mystery continues . . . what was the purpose of these lines??? The Nazca Lines are a series of geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert, stretching 53 miles (≈ 80km) between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana in Peru.  Just a little bit of info for you guys!! So you have these mysterious lines scattered all about this high arid plateau, and still no one knows exactly why? Scientists have come up with some explanations to these lines, but there's still a lot of ...

Ica is hot. Not jeans weather at all, although everyone still wears them. I have refrained from buying ¨hot weather clothes¨ and only mildly regret sending home a nice summery skirt I bought in Huancayo when I wanted to wash all my clothes. I arrived in Ica very early in the morning and was kindly let in the hostal by the woman who runs/owns it (see review elsewhere). I spent the first day orienting myself; the hostal is in a quiet, upmarket suburban area that reminds me of Miraflores in ...

The bus from Lima dropped us in Ica, which is about 10mins cab ride from Haucachina. In Ica thay have these little 3 wheeled taxi that take you around the town (see the pictures), i wanted one of these but we ended up getting in a crappy little mazda or something after the diver wouldn´t stop hassling us. Very disappointing. Huacachina is a small town that surrounds an oasis in the middle of some fairly significant sand dunes. From the outside the town looks very impressive, however once y...

Huacachina is a oase in the desert. By taxi it is about 10 minutes from Ica. The one of the billets of Peru shows this place, but in real it is much nicer. In the center is a big pond and around are palmtrees and some hostels. You can walk the sanddunes, ride in desert buggies and go sandboarding!

Today I saw the islas Ballestas. The islands are off the coast near the Paracas peninsula and are a retreat for many birds and sealions. The boatride was wet (The spray from the boat hit exactly the place I was sitting), but very very beautiful. When you near the islands you start to smell the Guano (bird droppings) and I can tell you that it does not smell good. I thought I was going to get sick, but after a while I got used to it. I got to take some really nice pictures of groups of  ...

Huacachina was a lovely place to stay - relaxed, loads of sun, surrounded by sand dunes - especially as a contrast to Lima.  It´s a really small place in the middle of a desert, but has a fairly large lakeght in the middle of it, hence its decription as a desert oasis. Our hostal was really classy, including a swimming pool and assorted pets including a number of parrots one of which decided to empty its bowels on my shorts (which was nice).  This was the first time on my trip tha...

This was my second trip to Perú

Here is pictures of my country peru !!

Here I show yo my favourite trip photos!

One of the most amazing countries I have ever been to! I wish I had more than just 11 days there! I reccommend Machu Picchu for anybody to see at least once in their lifetime!