Peru - Lima and Huacachina

Before we could begin our flight to Lima, we had to spend 17 hours in Caracas Airport until 6am the next morning. This was worse than we imagined as there were no chairs, except in the food court. The flight was fine, we both slept straight through. In Lima, we stayed at a very grand hotel, there were pieces of artwork and statues of naked greek men everywhere. In Lima we visited San Francisco Monastery, where we did a tour of the catacombs. In the catacombs there were over 25, 000 peoples bones all arranged into bone catorgories in graves. We also looked around at the Cathedral, the Congress building and the Inquisition Museum where people used to be tortured for information. We then went to China town where we looked around the market and had sweet and sour chicken, which was a welcomed change.

Next we went to Huacachina where we did sandboarding. This involved riding up the dunes in a dune buggy and sandboard down them. First Samantha slid down the dune using the board as a sledge, Sam went down standing up. On the last dune we were both standing, however Samantha went to fast and fell over and got a face full of sand.