Category Archives: Peru

Having spent yesterday afternoon and evening with today’s prospect looming right above us we were both a little nervous when we woke up. We decided to get up early and try and get most of the hike over before the sun started beating down too. We were told it would take three hours so weContinue reading “The Climb Out”

We arrived in Ica at around 8am in the morning and had to get to Huacachina which is about 6 kms away. We walked outside to the taxi rank and the only taxis there were the bike taxis similar to tuktuks. After a few minutes of Tim trying to explain to the driver that ourContinue reading “Huacachina “

From the moment we decided to stay at Huacachina Sarah had decided that we were going to have a day relaxing by a pool. Since our hotel didn’t have one we went off in search of one. Soon enough we found a place which let us in and it was really superb relaxing all dayContinue reading “Dune Buggies”

It was pretty difficult to find out much information about places to stay on the coast on the way up to Lima but we had heard that the Isla Balletas were the poor man’s Galapagos so we thought we would give it a go. The access to the islands was from a place called ParacasContinue reading “Paracas and the Isla Balletas”

Today’s adventure was a tour to Paracas national park. We would have preferred to do this ourselves but it was way cheaper catching a tour bus out there. The national park is part of the Atacama desert and it ranges right to the coast. So we were privileged to see sand dunes and rocky cliffsContinue reading “Paracas National Park”

Lima has been long on the horizon as our final destination in this stint of the trip. While not really somewhere we had planned to go it was where our flight was departing from so we had to be there. Early readings and research into the city weren’t entirely promising and there were plenty ofContinue reading “Lima, Hello again to the western world”