On Sunday we left Lima for Pisco. Pisco is named after the national drink of Peru and is famous for the 7.8 earthquake which almost completely destroyed the town in August 2007. Much of the destruction is still evident in the town with many buildings in the process of being restored and many of the inhabitants still living in temporary shelters....

I decided to join up with the vountario group Burners without Borders (a volunteering arm of the annual Burning Man festival) to help rebuild parts of Pisco that were destroyed during last summers 8.0 earthquake that last two and a half minutes! I spent the week working in the trenches (literally as I was digging trenches for foundations and the...

So after 4 days chilling in Lima we decided we should maybe go somewhere. So we got on a bus to Pisco, Peru (Royal Class, which was really nice and prompted Chris to declare that we were going to travel "all royal, all the time"). But remember we are in our transition phase! So we arrived in Pisco when it was already dark and we were attacked by...

I took a day trip to the Ballestas islands to day. They are described as "The poor mans Galapagos" but I found them visually more interesting than the Galapagos. You Pay 60 Soles(US$20) in Pisco and the next morning at 7:15 am you are picked up at your hotel in a mini van and driven to the fishing village of Paracas, 7 km from Pisco. There you a...

Il peru' nell'immaginario collettivo, o almeno nel mio, e' un insieme di paesaggi, immagini, natura e colore, si' soprattutto colore, il verde lussureggiante della foresta equatoriale, il marrone che cambia in rosso invadente delle dune del deserto sulla costa, i variopinti e gioviali abiti delle popolazioni andine...Lima non e' niente di tutto ...

Blimey So much to fill you in on and so soon. We´re currently in Pisco, a town just south of Lima (well "just", like a 4 hour bus journey is "just a small trip"). This was hit very hard in the earythquak that happened a couple of weeks ago and we headed on down to do our good deed (we do a lot of good work for char-i-dee mate!) We happened acros...

We travelled through the area impacted by the earthqauke. It was horrible, you could not tell what was there before it was just rubble. The really sad bit was children ran along the side of the bus, banging on the windows begging for money and food, it was really hard to see them with nothing. I really want to help and I am looking into options,...

Having booked a tour of the "Poor mans Galapodus" islands (more on that later) and an afternoon tour of an Inca admin centre upon ariving late in Pisco the night before...We awoke in a flurry of expletives, (having overslept till 6:30am....we were due to be at the tour office at 6:50am...)washing and packing.........Sampling one (or several) of ...

The original plan said having gotten to the coast by now, flying over the geoglyphes of Nazca and later quickly driving further to the Islas Ballestas near Pisco. Instead we decide for a more chilled-out manner of holiday and skip these two legs. We rather sleep late and go shopping this day. First we drive to a craftsmen market (artisanat), obj...

After arriving in Pisco last night, we walked around the small, smelly, dirty town, until we got hungry. After we ate dinner, we found our tour to the Islas de Ballestas and to the Parque Nacional de Paracas. I have heard some really good things about the Islas de Ballestas, so I was pretty excited to check them out. To sum it up in a paragraph,...