This may be our final blog from Peru as we head off tomorow morning for Bolivia. First, I must apologize for the Machu Picchu blog. Im sure all you world travelled spelling savants noticed that I misspelled Machu Picchu (as Machu Pichu - egad what I disaster) throughout the entire blog. When I realized it after an hour I was MUCH too lazy to fix it. I hope I have offended no one with this and dissapointed only myself with this gaff. Anyway...where were we. I believe Shelagh told you all about the Jungle so that must leave us with our final night in Cuzco (which ironically I still do not know how to spell as I have seen it written with both an s and a z - thank god I teach math). First of ... read more

Whew... There´s a lot to tell you about but I´ll quickly talk about Cuzco before Heather gets into the meat of this blog. Cuzco is pretty cool. The heart of the inca civilization built at what the incas considered the navel of the world. It had the 12 sided brick...which I had been eagerly awaiting after finishing¨"The conquest of the Incas" by John Hemming. A pretty amazing book for anyone interested in the Incas. The incas made their religious buildings with interlocking bricks that don´t need mortar and this entire city has Inca buildings or foundations everywhere. The better the stonework the more religious the building. We visited the temple of the sun which was the most religious building in the inca empire. When the Incas defeated a race of pople they stole their most ... read more

So we´re in Peru. We flew from Guyaquil in Ecuador to Lima on the 21st July. Arrived in Peru in the evening and other than Heather being allowed to stay in Peru for 90 days and me for 60 days...not to eventful. Clearly I look dodgy...but then most of you knew that. We had a little eventful start when we arrived at the start hotel for our GAP trip and discovered that they had changed the start hotel. The taxi we took from the airport had of course left by the time we realized this, but we got to the new hotel..if not a little pissed off. The next morning was a free morning to explore Lima. Lima is huge with over 8 million people living here. The centre of the city looks like anywhere in ... read more

Have you missed us?? **Update** Remember awhile ago when we were in the town of Banos and went upthe Tungurahua volcano but were dissapointed because although we could hear it rumbling we couldn´t see the lava being ejected. Well, guess what...It erupted!! They´ve evacuated 2 500 people from the town and surrounding hamlets, newspapers here are filled with photos with red cross workers etc. Actually, no one´s been hurt but of course thousands of animals have died. We´re glad we weren´t in town then, especially because our spanish is so bad that evacuating us may have been difficult.*** It´s been a few days since we´ve written so we´ve lots to catch up on. Now, where were we... Ah yes, I believe we last touched base in the sea side town of Canoa. I feel that I ... read more

Day 3 We had sailed to the island of Espanola overnight and started our morning with a hike on the islan. Shockingly the beach was full of Sea Lions! Maybe I haven´t been making it clear, but they are EVERYWHERE in Galapagos, and they are fantastic. Even though you get very used to seeing them, you never get tired of them. They are just funny! Here we saw the babies nursing from their moms. The babies that we saw were probably 3 feet long and they would just wiggle up to their moms who were (surprise, surprise) napping, and latch on. There were Iguanas everywhere on the rocks. They´re lying on top of each other and some rocks would have literally 10 Iguanas on it. We did see them walk around, but I never saw one ... read more