Peter William Anderson

To get to this Internet Cafe i had to run the gauntlet of little children hurling water balloons (apparently quite common here, especially at Carnival). I lost. So ive spent the last hour or so drying out, and waiting for our photos to upload. We have spent almost a week here in Cusco and it [...]

In total we spent two days in the beautiful Arequipa, with a 3 day tour/trek down into the Colca Canyon sandwiched in between. In Arequipa we got to visit a fascinating monastery right in the city centre (it was huge!), as well as visit a museum all about “Juanita”. Juanita is a mummy found on [...]

We arrived in Nazca on Monday afternoon and booked a land tour of the Nazca lines for the following day. The best way to see the lines is to go up in a little aeroplane, but with both Friedi and I being total sissy’s, and the fact that a plane crashed only last week meant [...]

Today we decided to explore Ica and visit the oasis at Huacachina for some sand-boarding. We were wandering why Ica seemed so flat when our guide took us to the old church (see photos). It turns out that there was a 7.9 earthquake only last year which hit the town badly. We saw entire streets [...]

Our first experience of Peru was a 4 day stay in Lima. We took 2 bus tours (one round Lima city centre, and one to the ruins of Pachacamac), spent one day relaxing, and took a bus to Ica where we are currently staying. Lima gets a bad reputation amongst travellers partly due to the [...]