Thursday 24.6.2010 day 253 A change of heart Well my travel friend has had a change of heart and is going to stay travelling with me for the next 5 weeks. So we spent the day booking our next trips and flight. It takes so long to do the organising when you have to book flight, trips and accommodation to all fit in. ... read more

Tuesday 22.6.2010 day 251 Panquilma pre Incan Archaeological site Today we went back to Panquilma the pre Incan Archaeological site that we found yesterday with the camera and found so many interesting things the more time we spend here the more we find. This time we took the camera so got some photos. After we had a very late lunch at our resort of local Peru food and tried the local cocktail of Pisco Sour. It is made up of a local drink call Pisco that comes from the town of Pisco were the grapes are grown. The town was mostly destroyed in 2007 by an earthquake. The drink is %45 alcohol and a grape brandy and very nice. When we went to our room we had more drinks of the vodka that we had at ... read more

Sunday 20.6.2010 day 249 Feeling isolated in Peru My friend is still not feeling well today. Lots of people did come to our resort today but we did not know how it worked if we payed one price for meals and drinks or had to get tickets or what no one gave us a menu even though they where cooking pigs and chickens over open fires. We got frustrated over not knowing what was happening or how to order so walked down the road and had lunch in a little restaurant there. I feel very isolated with all these people around but no one who spoke English and would explain to me what was happening. Having been to over 50 countries in my life this is the most frustrated I have ever been with not understanding ... read more

Friday 18.6.2010 day 247 Sauce Alto Resort Today we checked out of our hotel and move to the Sauce Alto Resort. We got a taxi there costing us $S 80 ($35Aus) The taxi ride was a nightmare first the driver had to get petrol then stopped to put water in the radiator it was stemming and look like it would blow up. He was a very bad driver and was cutting cars off and in the wrong lane and almost crashed a few times and then he did not know how to get to the resort so stoped every 5 min to ask directions eventually we got there the diver did not take us to the door just dropped us at the driveway and said our 50 sole note was a fake and would not take ... read more

My first day in Lima Although we got in after 3am we didn’t want to miss the bfast included in the room rate so we got up at 9:15 and went down for bfast thinking we would go back to sleep after but it was too late once we were up we could not get back to sleep so we had showers and off we went for the day. We are staying in Miraflores the touristy part of town and are only two blocks from the beach so we headed their first. The views were breathtaking and there was a lot of nice restaurants making the most of the views. We then headed to Kennedy Park which is a tourist hang out and is also about 2 blocks from our hotel in the other direction. We ... read more