jamesinperu

hola todos como estas? me ... bien gracias so i have finished my two weeks at chacani school, what an amazing experience. quite sad to leave, so many great kids and great people we were working with, will deffinanatly be back one day. two nights ago there was a big earthquake, 6 on the rictor scale, the bigest one here for 5 years. i woke up at 4.15am with my bed jumping up and down, scary stuff, it went on for 1.20 mins, luckyly no injurys have been reported. so we were supposed to leave yesterday evening with our friend sarah and head towards Lima for our flight on saturday. however this is peru and nothing is ever that simple. they strike about everything here and now its a national strike over transport for 24 starting ... read more

hello, we are back in my favourite city Arequipa and it looks like we are set to stay for a while. our beloved stefan left us a couple of days ago and so me and pete left cusco for arequipa with the intention of traveling onto chile. however being so tired we decided to stop a day or 2 in arequipa and meet up with our friend dennis who we met last time. we went to the supermarket the next morning and tried to draw out some money ... there was none, we have not been spending excessifly but we have done a lot of stuff, museums every day, nice coaches etc all add up it seems! anywho so having sorted out dinero issues thanks to ma and pa we decided to stay in arequipa for ... read more

bienvenidos we are backfrom our weekend break in bolivia. had a great time, not as good as peru but then it was only 3 days so i cant really tell.people speak to quick there though. the ilsand was amazing, so beautifull but we did have a small problem, we intended to stay one night on the island but when we got there we realised we had no money for a bed or food lol so withour 800kilo backpacks we walked the trail across the spine of the island ... really pretty but bloody hard and then caught a baot back the same day. 90 days ! the guy on the border now gave us another 90 days so we dont have to leave again if we dont want towhich is great news. spend one night in ... read more

hi ! i´m a little behind writing my blog cos i havnt had the internet for a while. hope you are all well.i´ve had some crazy cravings over the past week and it either means im preggers or i miss england a wee bit. lasagna toffiekist popcorn wurthers originals and sweet an sour super noodle ... all on my cravings list ... be a good friend and sent me these things, thankyou so we are in puno now and its so cold!about 0 degrees to be precise. the town is nothing special but our hostel is wikedsick. we have our wn apartment with kitchen and loungue an loadsa dvds so we just kicking bak till tomoro when we of to bolivia ! ciao for now x... read more

hey yall hope everyone is well, we just got back from our 3 day hike in the colca canyon, the deepest in the world ! it was amazing, so beautifull and isolated. We started at 6am when we were met by our guide Dennis at our hostel. It was so early muh, we then took a 6 hr local bus from Arequipa to Chivay then to Cabanaconde where we had lunch. After lunch we took off, about half an hour to the side of the canyon then about 3ish hours to decend. It was hard work ! There is no real path just a very loose gravel track winding down the side some bits were about a ft wide, combined with constant herds of donkeys passing made it a real experience! finally when we reached the ... read more