The Travelling Buncebury's

Paracas National Reserve Most of our travel arrangements are a la Carte but back in Lima we came across and had a recommendation for a company called Peru Hop which ran a coach service with drop off points at a variety of places we wanted to visit.   Time spent at each location was our choice and they did have some good accommodation discounts whose veracity was checked by my fellow traveller.    Peru Hop would take us as far as La Paz, across the border in Bolivia, in about a month or so, costing a hundred dollars or so more than us booking individual coaches.   Apart from the hotel discounts, we would be picked up and dropped at our hotel so no taxis to and from out of the way bus stations and it was more convenient than making eight or ten separate coach bookings.   So we had another early start heading south through hours of more desert but a less attractive landscape to the coastal town of Paracas.    Courtesy of our Peru Hop discount we had a sea view balconied

the Cathedral to the left, Plaza de Armas, Trujillo Many of you will know that I am shall we say, careful about my food but here I intend to eat as much Peru-fusion food as I can.   Of course this is on the understanding that such ‘fusion’ food includes pizza and pasta.   I am however declaring the local delicacy Cuy off-limits but I do hope to see the famous Last Supper in Cuzco Cathedral where the main dish is Cuy.   Most of you will not know that we English speakers call Cuy, Guinea Pig. The most obvious, indeed blindingly obvious result of changing our plan so dramatically away from the Caribbean is that we now have six weeks or so more than we expected in South America.   We didn’t have any plan except that we expected to meet up with our friends Bonnie and Newt in mid-January and fly back to the UK in mid March.   We now have six weeks extra non-plan to enjoy. Lima - enclosed window for the Spanish ladies to watch from So, here we are in Lima, Peru’s cap