Right if this thing doesnt work again i´m going to look for another blog! Where have we been since macchu pichu...well from there we headed on an overnight bus to nazca. The journey was all twists and turns and a few people felt a bit queasy. When we arrived at nazca we were asked to sign up for a flight, so half an hour later we were at the airport....and guess what,....it was there that i realised that i had left my beloved cap on the bus!!! That the 2nd one i lost!! So as i´m writing this i am wearing a cheap chilean replacement!!! Anyway went on the flight but it didnt sink in that we were actually seeing the famous nazca lines! They were pretty amazing, there was a monkey and a spaceman!! And they could only be seen from the air! So bizarre!
Anyway later that morning we were asked to go to a nazca cemetary with two english girls. We were apparently getting a VIP tour and the guide was great until he crashed his car into the side of a 4x4! So after getting out all okay, we pushed the car to the side of the road and a taxi took us on our ´vip´tour!! The cemetary was pretty wierd, loads of mummies and skeletons but there were 1500 year old fabrics and bones scattered everywhere!! It was like seeing anglo saxons with thier clothes really well preserved because theres no rain!
Anyway later that day and night suze got delhi belly and the next day all we wanted to do was get the heck out of nazca. so we got the bus at 3pm and saw the pacific for the first time! Arrived at arrequipa in peru. We were met by the girl from the hostel at midnight, then taken to the hostel and given supper before being shown our room with ipod speakers!!! It was amazing!! A well deserved break from nazca, delhi belly and the inca trail!
On our first day there we visited juanica, an inca princess who was sacrificed on top of one of the local snow capped mountains to appease the gods. She was really well preserved and apparently walked from cusco before being given alchohol, coca leaves and hit over the head. she was dressed in the finest alpaca and was found a few years ago.
The next day (who says theres no history in s america) we visited a 16th century nunnery that has been opened to the public. It was fascinating, a whole citadel within the city completly closed off! All the nuns had cloisters and their own cells with a room, kitchen and bit of open space. The whole area even had streets named after the cities in spain!
Then as it got dark they lit all the candles and you could wander round at night!!!
Anyway amazing place. After that we moved to Tacna on the peru chile border. I ate some wierd steak and was ill the day after...typical...but we eventually got to chile! First stop arica where we paddled in the PACIFIC!!! then we got another bus to iquique on the pacific coast. Really cool town with a long promenade and good surf. The centre also had a great street that was like something from the wild west!!! really cool buildings from the ealry 20th century!

Anyway next stop was humberstone a ghost town left over from the 1940s. it was set up by a british firm in 18 something, then abandoned in the 1960s. Its just been left now and is like an old industrial site in the uk except they HAVE KEPT IT and not demolished everything! Its now a UNESCO world heritage site!

After that we went to paranal, the european space agency observatory in chile! That was cool, saw the boffins and everything..will put pic up when thi stupid thing works...

Now we´re in San pedro de atacama! Just come back from the famous uyuni salt flats on an extreme 4 day trip!! Was crazy, minus 25 apparently on the first night and no heating. We were 4300m above sea level and had to wear about 6 or 7 layers all night and day! But it was worth it. Heading to argentina tomorrow......woohoo! Will update again soon....will try get these pics on flickr....