Blogs from San Isidro, Lima, Lima, Peru, South America

Tumbes to Trujillo We started out early the next day at 6.30. The scenery varied from yesterday with more desert-like arid areas which climbed to rocky hills. There was loads of maize, some bananas and what looked like a bit of rice growing along the way. We had a long day riding to cover some ground and arrived in Trujillo around 5pm where Gerardo found us a nice place to stay. Trujillo, Peru to Lima, Peru Next day was also an early 6.30am start. We road from Trujillo to Lima (Peru's capital city). I've gotta say, I'm absolutely astounded and horrified by the amount of garbage on the sides of the road; it really is something else and there's no excuse! Having traveled from North America, Central American, Colombia and Ecuador; Peru definitely has the worst ... read more

1st post - Arriving in Peru As my trip started on Saturday the 8th, I was already excited about everything expecting me along my trip. Especially the Peruvian food. I had a oversleep stop in Madrid, where I met my friend Christian, who had lived in Germany and was room mate, if crashing at friends in the living room might be called so. He picked me up from the airport, had a very, no big deal, small problem with the car and headed immediately home. In a mater of minutes we headed to a bar in the crazy, chaotic and warm city of Madrid (won´t write about this, is a south American trip but: warm, lout, beautiful girls, skirts, nice food, cold bear, lout people – something amazed me and still does here in Peru is ... read more

It would appear that giving the group the blog password and suggesting they make their entry amusing was interpreted as ´make up an amusing story´. I would like to confirm that everything is fine and I have not had any encounters with baggage carousels! Miss B... read more

It's been an up and down past couple of days. Mostly it's been good, I just have gotten a little down once or twice because of not knowing anyone here and not really knowing what's going on half the time. But I feel a lot better now and have lots of fun things coming up! First off, my feet are still hurting. It's difficult to have any days where I don't walk a lot, so I am trying to get used to it and trying to massage out the pain when I'm not doing anything at home. I should probably try to give them a rest for a day or two and then be careful. Though I'm sure they will hurt again once I start hiking mountains continuously. Yesterday was pretty good. I had plans with ... read more

On Saturday night I sat on the end of my bed and cried whilst talking to Mum about all the things that could go wrong with this trip. I have a rather vivid imagination and am a natural pessimist so I was creating allsorts of bizarre possible situations. However, even I couldn’t imagine just how much bad luck I was in for over the next 24 hours or so. Getting to Heathrow airport was painless enough as was checking in for my flight. After a painful goodbye to Mum, Roger and Jon, I was comforted by a 30 minute wait to get through security and an exciting frisking by a particularly burly female security guard. The next hiccup didn’t come until boarding was supposed to start for my flight to Madrid at 7.20pm. Apparently someone had ... read more