Well, I've finally left Lima, and on to pastures new. I´m now in Pisco a few hours south, still on the coast. My drive here was amazing. First we had to drive down through the publos nuevos or shanty towns of Lima. These, seen from a distance, seemed to be horrific. The buildings are constructed from anything on hand, and any stone buildings I s...

Hola from Arequipa! After spending quite some time in the Cusco area, it was time to leave for what looks like will be my last real stop in Peru. My bus for Arequipa was supposed to leave at 9pm but ended up leaving at least half an hour late. One interesting thing was that someone official came around to videotape each of the passengers on the ...

After a day of travel, I met up with Eldon at the Lima airport in Peru. Fortunately we found each other in the immigration line, which we then waited in for 1.5 hours. (and VERY fortunate for me, because his flight landed like 6 min before mine, so I cut in front of about 50 people when I saw him... how very Paraguayan of me.) We made it to our ...

We arrived to Cusco by air. Unlucky for us, this hostel messed up the airport pickup too and we were left waiting ages until we just got a taxi. Our initial impressions of the hostel were ok, not great but it would do. We thought we´d arranged a female only dorm but that wasn´t the case either. Our first task was to book our trip to MachuPicchu....

Hola Amigos, ¿Que tal? Es muy calor! OK, for fear of being Lynched, pardon the pun, I´m not going to write everything in Spanish. Arrived in Lima yesterday morning about 4:30am, and I´d arranged a transfer to the hostel since I was arriving in the middle of the night. One was not best pleased when the transfer person wasn´t there to meet me!! It...

Stayed at The Point Hostel in Lima until the 23rd. The area is called Barranco. (www.thepointhostels.com/lima - would recommend it - so secure even I don´t have a key!) Everyone is really friendly, although the ´hostel cat´is a bit psychotic between 9 and 11am! Apart from getting burnt, I finally met a couple of people who weren´t at the end of ...

Ever sat down next to someone on a bus / train and regretted it? Yeah, I think that's what the woman next to me thought at the beginning of the 20 hour journey from Cusco to Lima on Sunday/Monday this week! I followed the advice from my friend Cesar in Cusco, about getting a good bus company to travel back to Lima - because "they lose a vehicle ...

Entry 24 of a trip titled: Katie's Big Trip - Latin America then the World!

Setting off with my backpack and an 18 month round-the-world ticket, first stop Costa Rica, then Colombia to overland around South America until i can't take any more or my ticket forces me to leave!

Entry 27 of a trip titled: Katie's Big Trip - Latin America then the World!

Setting off with my backpack and an 18 month round-the-world ticket, first stop Costa Rica, then Colombia to overland around South America until i can't take any more or my ticket forces me to leave!

Entry 30 of a trip titled: Katie's Big Trip - Latin America then the World!

Setting off with my backpack and an 18 month round-the-world ticket, first stop Costa Rica, then Colombia to overland around South America until i can't take any more or my ticket forces me to leave!

Now been traveling for a few weeks in the wonderful country of Peru, lots of thing to talk about so this could be a long blog entry, deep breath here goes. Arrived in Lima from Santiago and had already booked a hostel in the Barranco area on the advise of a fellow traveler. The hostel had also arranged a pick up so I got my first taste of just h...

Entry 30 of a trip titled: One last trip... that's what I said last time, and now here we are once again leaving. This time for 6 months to South America with my fiance Andrea. Does this travel bug ever really die? I hope not!

One last trip... we've said that before, but this time it may be for real. Well, at least for a while. We've put everything back in storage, put life on hold yet again and have chosen adventure over logic. Follow along on our trip to South America. We'll be sending real-time updates with our camera phone thanks to TravelPod's mobile blogging service and will update our travel blog as much as possible. During this 6 month trek, we plan to visit our sponsored child in Paraguay, party in Rio during Carnival and work our way through as many countries and amazing sites as we can before ending in Colombia to head home where we promise that this time, we'll settle down... ... for a while :)

Ah, Incan ruins! All very delightful. We took the train to Machu Picchu for only180 dollars. (!) The reason being Dee wouldn´t have been able to do the trek with her knee being only recently stitched. I was only too delighted! Really not a trekker so it worked out well for me (selfish sod that I am). We had an early start and took the bus to Oll...

Buenos dias me Amigos When I left you I was in a somewhat despondent mood after days of buses and and a fairly terrible hostel. Well my mood has changed rather dramatically since then I am feeling somewhat chipper. I am about to go to bed as I have a 3 day trek in the second deepest canyon in the world tomorrow which I'm sure will be fun and you...

Ello! Just before leaving Lima we enjoyed some good chicken, some cocktails and a windowless taxi ride home!! managed to sort out a bus to Cuzco, and were told it was going to be 23 hours, thought this was a bit much as the first bus company could do it in 18 but did it anyway....ended up being a 30.5 hour bus journey. Not too bad as they fed us...

Cusco. Tourist capital of Peru. home to the former world famous Incan empire. it truely is a wonderful city. there is less traffic here, on a sunday it is very quite and peaceful. overklooking 3/4's of cusco is a mountain range also know as the Andes. theyre quite large. on the top of this particular part of the andes, near cusco is a giant Jesu...

OK... so since the last post, we have spent a lot of time on the road!! Tom and I went to the bus station to book a ticket... our first choice service was fully booked though, so we went for the next one down... but their credit card machine was broken, so we had to just reserve and pay when we turned up the next day... which turned out to be fi...