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 ...

So I have started a new tour in South America and will be working my way across before coming home - boo hoo. First impressions of Lima were not good - looked really really dodgy out around the airport but am staying in the nice area called Miraflores. Went and explored with my new room mate Faye - she´s cool. Peru don´t half like their churches...

It was a long winding journey from Cusco to Lima and a good old 24hr bus ride. We thought we would push the boat out, go for a little luxury and ride first class on the bus. National Express eat your heart out. With our fake student ID cards we got the whole ride for about 15 quid - the same price we would have paid to sit with the commoners. Af...

Hola! Well Louise has traded in her burqa for a bikini (well not quite yet as it has been fricken freezing in Peru). Yes we`ve arrived in South America so stand by for updates including poor quality Spanish and input from Goose(John) who has joined us on this leg. There is a fair bit of ground to cover and things to see in Peru as well as a rang...

Hello from Lima, again... I´m now going to be here for a month. I will be working on an archeological dig of some thing called the "Huaca". Not sure what it is, but i know it dates back from the 5 century. impressive huh, today i met the in country coordinator and loads of other volunteers who are starting their work on monday, they all seem ver...

Next and last, Peru. From Bolivia, on the lake titicaca, we continued to Puno on a brief stop to see the floating island. The islands are entirely artificial, made from soil, branches and grass. Cusco, amzing place. You cannot not love this city. The buildings are so dated by the mixed old-new-quechua architecture. The amount of inca ruins, of o...

This morning after a much needed kip we were picked up from this hotel and taken on a tour of the city of Lima. The sun was shining and it was in the low 80s!! Nice!! Our first stop was the Parque Miraflores which stands on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. One of the previous mayors of Lima had connections to Barcelona and a love of Gou...

Hello everyone, We know that so far we haven't been the best bloggers, and we hope to get better. Right now we are sitting in Lima at the Contreras's house, about to eat lunch. Last night we returned from Cusco and this afternoon we are heading towards Paracas to see "las focas" --the seals. So, we thought we would say a quick hello and give a b...

Hi All, Well, we made it through the ordeal of Buenos Aires. Spent the last couple of days site seeing...recolleta cemetary was awesome! Adam insists he must be buried in a large crypt, possibly with a large bust of himself and several statues of mourning women (see the pictures). So on saturday we got on the plane for Peru! We were glad to be o...

I am happy to announce the May 17th celebrations in Vilcabamba went very well and were rather fun! Not a bunad (that'll be the Viking national costume for you non-Norgies out there) in sight, but a congregation of 8 homemade (crayon drawn) flags and the Norwegian national anthem was heard from the top of Mandango all the way through the valley o...