first week down south

Hello there!
having been here almost a week we thought we´d put up some pictures of our various jaunts around peru. our hostel in lima was pretty special, with turtles and parrots roaming aroung and eating your toes and screeching ´hola, hola´at every turn.




Better than that though, the first bar we walked into to have a celebratory beer was playing good old phil collins- what a treat! we could have been back in milverton!

Here´s a wee picture of Lima


We arrived in arequipa on friday after an intrepid 20 hour journey across the desert, we were a little scared about this trek as the road is notoriously dangerous- but we got on the bus and soon found the large man sat opposite us was sporting a t-shirt that read ´Oregon Women´s Basketball Team 1998´. We knew that he´d protect us from those banditos!

Nonetheless, ELO kept us entertained....


So now we are in arequipa, which is beautiful and hot!


We´ve eaten many a strange meat floating in soupy water and drank us some Inca Cola which tastes like jiffy bubblegum.

Dave has accidently dyed his beard and hands orange as we bought suncream with fake tan in by mistake.


We´ve moved into the house we´re renting whilst volunteering here, the other volunteers are entirely german and female- ooh
we´re going to have a good time! ...we also found some tuna called ´Fanny´which kept us entertained for a good 5 hours.


So long for now from the Southern Hemisphere!