The newbies are all very nice - there is one couple Craig (Kiwi) and Geraldine (French), two girls travelling together Georgie and Ana (both English), and three other single girls - Claudia (German), Jenny (Scottish) and Emma (English). Yesterday we left Lima and took a 5-hour bus to Paracas. The bus journeys are pretty boring now as the scenery is just desert for as far as the eye can see. We arrived in time for dinner, but nothing else before bed. Today has been busy to make up for it though! We were up early for a trip to the Ballesta Islands, about 30 minutes off-shore from Paracas. Described as the 'poor man's Galapagos', there were hundreds of thousands of birds all over the rocks, including cormorants, boobies, pelicans and penguins, and several sealions too. No
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