A young Indian boy with adorable curly hair and a yellow checked shirt that has been buttoned up wrong runs past to try and catch a scrawny puppy that has worked itself free from the tree it has been tied to. Before anyone can tell him to be careful, the boy is out of sight.
We’re [...]
Well, after a quiet few days with nothing to report (apart from the fact that I treated myself to a manicure and pedicure – it cost me all of £4 in Miraflores) it all seemed to happen yesterday.
I was waiting for Rhonda to arrive and didn’t really know what to do with myself so I [...]
In Huanchaco (near Trujillo in the north of Peru) now which is a small fishing village with nice beaches. It’s popular with surfy types, might even give it a go myself.
I’m trying to make my way up to Ecuador but it’s so chilled out around here I’m not sure if I’ll make it.
I should be [...]
Well, I wasn’t sick. But I did feel terrible and couldn’t look at the actual lines for very long. I was a complete wreck when I came off and was very shaky. I had taken travel sickness pills and was wearing those band things on my wrists but they didn’t stop me feeling like the [...]
We then went to back to Cusco… LOVE IT THERE!! The main square is gorgeous and all the buildings have been kept in their original state, unlike Lima where all the buildings are much more modern.
We had a couple of mad nights that involved much too much alcohol and silly dancing and then we had [...]
I did it! Was a bit on the tricky side but by the time we started I had adapted quite well to the altitude and that didn’t really cause many problems. It was hard to catch my breath but I had fewer problems with the altitude than most. In fact I finished the second day [...]
Erotic ceramics. Lima has a whole museum dedicated to erotic ceramics. They like their fertility symbols here and it was hard to keep the sniggering to a minimum. At the Rafael Herrera Larco Museum there were men depicted having sex with animals, dead people, being rather dominant with women etc. It was all a bit disturbing [...]
South American football. Absolutely crazy. That was an experience. Never been to a football game like that in my life, the atmosphere was amazing. Peru were playing Ecuador in a World Cup qualifying match in Lima and we’d managed to get tickets for 25 soles, so about a fiver.
When we got to the stadium there [...]
Looking around the main square in Ayacucho I realised that I seemed to be the only fair skinned person there. I have been stared at intently before (the time I was allergic to the disinfecting wipes used on first aid dummies for instance – I walked unknowingly around Sainsburys with a big red smile The [...]
This country is so diverse. After Lima I left for Ica and stayed at Casa de Arena, Huachachina. This is a tiny oasis in the middle of the most amazing huge sand dunes.
The hostel was okay but due to its location everything was covered in sand and it didn’t take long before everything I owned [...]
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