First night in Peru. Very short but everybody seems happy and rested this morning. Just been to walk around Miraflores (very nice part of the city) this morning. Students have now some "soles" and are leaving their rooms. We are leaving for Cusco at 3pm by coach. This means a night on a bus, but the atmosphere is good! and we are so looking forw...

Hola. por infomacion, this letter is being written to my family but copied to some special other friends. Day 1- Arrival in Lima. This will take some time to fill in the blanks and will be a work in progress, but I certainly got to experience the ´culture´of the big city... I now need a new watch to control my hearing aid...nuf said but I wasn´t...

Dara- After a long (and rather frighteningly strange) bus ride, we left Bolivia (tear) to begin a whirlwind tour of Peru. By 'frighteningly strange bus ride' I mean that when some policemen stopped our bus to do a drug check a bunch of the local ladies on the bus raced out and started throwing rocks at them. I was pretty sure we were all going t...

There was one hostel I knew in Lima, the Witches' Guest House. And there I was again, booked into a dorm room and dealing with the flirtations of a very peruvian looking receptionist. I had a nice time there though, and a much longer one that I expected. Well, it was when I got to Lima that I finally realised, after more than a week, that I had ...

And so it was that the body went into autopilot, the backpack stuffed with clothes that literally could have walked in themselves and my last clean t-shirt and jocks thrown on more out of courtesy to the other passengers on the bus, but sorry there is nothing I can do about the smell seeping from those hiking boots for the 8 hour bus ride to Lim...

Final day of my trip! Quickly checked out of the hostel I was in last night and moved to a nice hotel just 3 blocks from the main Plaza in Lima. Honestly, this area is just one big shopping mall! I walked a few blocks to the main church and visited its attached museum and catacombs before grabbing lunch and a hot shower. The rest of the day was ...

Hey everyone, There is free internet in the hostel we are staying in, so I thought I would update you all quickly, as I'm sure you're all dying to know that we made it here safe. Josh and I arrived in Lima a little later then expected, but other than that, all flights were normal. We spent the better part of our layover in Miami trying to reopen...

What I'll always remember about Lima? HONKING. Loudest city I've ever been to! They've also got some great shopping here...lots of jewelry, llama products and beautiful pottery!