Yes were in Chile!!!! Sorry its taken so long to update but all will become clear, once ive finished typing and youve all read this entry!!!! Copocamba We had 4 or 5 days rest and relaxation in Copocamba after all our travelling. This is a lovely little village on the shores of Lake Titicaca, full of colour buildings and probably the most touristy things we have seen to date. Yet again there is a lovely square and cathedral which we visited. The alter is all in gold and reaches from floor to ceiling, yet the remaining decor is quite plain. This [View Full Entry]

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Apologies for the delay it´s been a long few days and now we have finally stopped so we can play catch up!!! Time to make yourselves comfortable and we will begin ..... Nasca We spent the whole day in Nasca as our bus wasn´t due to leave until 9.00pm. So we visited the museum which was interesting and has in its back gardens (for want of a better description) an aqueduct. This is an original and still feeds water through the town. As we walked away from the museum heading towards the town I spotted a rather large whole in the [View Full Entry]

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Nothing much to report!! Truijllo was as lovely little colonial town in the middle of nowhere. Beautifully painted house with wrought ironwork and balconies. Lovely large square where everyone congregated. This was only an overnight stay again before we hit the road to Lima!!! 8 hour bus journey and we had a shock in Lima. Its busy busy busy!!!! So much so we booked the next bus out to Nasca and didnt stay overnight as we didnt like the place!!!!! The journey down the coast from Truijllo was spectacular!! We got to Nasca at about 6.00am got to our hotel and [View Full Entry]

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Get yourselves a coffee and make yourselves comfortable this is a long one!!! Ok so we boarded a plane from Quito to Loja. It was a 40min taxi ride to Loja to get a bus to head out to Piura. The taxi ride was not without incident. The taxi driver booting out the two women who were already in situ for our fare instead. We avoided our first international incident!! The taxi was held together with sellotape and gaffer tape!!! There was carpet on the dashboard along with dead flowers!!! Hmmm. On finally arriving in one piece we bought our tickets [View Full Entry]

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The equator was a fun diversion, although the monument and line where everyone has their photo taken is 240m out. there would have been greta views of volcano cotapaxi if it hadn't been for the mist, it was very warm alll the same. Later in the day we went up to parque itchimbia, only a couple of blocks from the hotel but about 500mtrs of steps, decided on account of the effects of altitude on my motivation, to take a taxi to the top. there were fantastic 360 degree views of the city so we sat on the grass and took [View Full Entry]

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well finally we´ve made - apologies in advance - we´ve yet to get any photos on here. We have had a rather adventurous journey to get here!! We boarded an early flight to Madrid which we thought would leave us with a couple of hours to spare in Madrid - wrong (this was a sign of things to come!!). As we were flying on to Quito we had to leave via the back of the plane down the steps!!! Great the steps arrived but the bus to take us over to the international departures took a further half hour!!! Then we [View Full Entry]

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