Hotel Wendy Pisco

... be very – almost day old – bread. With nothing much to do, I went to bed early – as usual. After 7 hours of sleep – which I suppose is what my body needs these days – I woke up at 5.30!! After the breakfast, which was very uninspiring, I got ready to be picked up at 7.30 for my trip to the Ballestas Islands with departure from the dock at 8. However, they did not turn up! A quarter to eight, I called my contact in Lima, and shortly thereafter they had ...

... only get 2mm of rain a year and it had not been washed away for this reason. I reckon they were pulling someone´s leg personally as it all looked a bit false to be from around 300AD. Oh well, on to the islands.<br><br>As we neared the first island the smell of fresh Guano was almost overwhelming and my Avocado sandwich began beckoning again. I had to sit down to avoid vomiting all over the guy in front. Hundreds of seagulls and Pelicans filled the rocks, squarking like ...

Having got the bus from Ica to Pisco... we got off at the crossroads of the panamerica highway... and were bombarded by taxi`s being the only gringos getting off the bus... we finally got one who would take us to Pisco... although he seemed surprised we wanted to go... he had most of his teeth missing but he had a trustworthy grin! We had kept saying that we wanted to have a pisco sour in pisco... so planned to ...

... but a lot that's not. Our guide doesn't seem very enamoured of the place - took us to the main square & said there's nothing else to see! Am feeling rather tall in Peru - not the tallest of people which is probably why the toilets are so low!!!!! Heading to the ballestas islands tomorrow - "the poor mans galapagos"! Ok way too much effort to type on a little iPhone keyboard!! Bye !

... br>our welcome, and without a week's worth of classes to follow, it<br>would be best to leave the next morning.<br><br>[Mollie's notes: The weather<br>was cool and misty when we went to the island, it reminded me of<br>Alaska. I love that kind of weather.]<br><br> That night I did my best<br>with limited resources to fire together a cream-sauce pasta full of<br>chicken and vegetables, and Mollie did a side of deviled eggs that<br>were the highlight of the meal. After ...

... we used however was extremely nice - cost about a thousand times as much as the bus that the locals use but obviosuly worth every penny (check out the photo). Our first night we spent in a hostel / hotel recommended by the Lonely Planet so clearly the prices reflected this and we moved out after our first night to a hotel with a bigger pool and which was half the price! There are a bunch of photos of this ...

... nice town as it´s still recovering from the earthquake which occurred 2 years ago. There´s still a lot of rubble on the streets and buildings still in the process of being rebuilt.<br>All the locals told us not to go out after dark and not to carry any valuables.<br>We paid for our boat tour but, unfortunately Ewan got sick (maybe food poisoning) so we had to cancel. Thankfully, our trip picked up a lot from here...

After a 4 hour bus ride from Lima through mostly desert country we arrived in Pisco.. or lets say we stopped at the Panamericana that goes through Pisco and were then taken into Pisco via taxi. The buses are not going into Pisco itself as the roads are still not fixed and many are under construction. <br><br>Pisco was about 70% destroyed in the earthquake that hit Peru in 2007... and it still looks like the earthquake happened yesterday ...

... Sadly, this region (from what we understand) got no funding or support from the Peruvian government and much of the funding that arrived from outside was stolen and never made it to the town. 100,000+ people were left to pick up the pieces on their own and this is where PSF comes in. Basically the organisation provides people to do unskilled manual labour for people that cannot afford to pay others to do it. This involves demolishing old ...

... lkerung beim Wiederaufbau benachteiligt wurde. Die Häuser machen nicht den Eindruck als ob sie das nächste Erdbeben überstehen würden. Diese Region wird sehr häufig von Erbeben heimgesucht, das sie auf der Schnittstelle zweier tektonischer Platten liegt.<br><br>Natürlich haben wir den Besuch in El Carmen auch ausgenutzt, um ein typisches Gericht zu probieren. Wir gingen also in das einzige Restaurant, welches uns schon am Eingang mit einem Aufkleber &#8222; NO A LA ...