Day 4 today - the beginning of the little trek to Machu Pichu Day 3- central Lima

After Rich and I went for a "rest" at 7pm the night before, prior to meeting for dinner and managing a 14 hour nap,sleeping through our dinner arrangements we had some apologies to make to the Canson party on the morning of Day3. No love was lost and the 4 of us headed (in true Garnett style- ie 3 hrs after meeting for breakfast) in to what has only been described as the hull of South America! -central Lima!

The hotel receptionist tried to sell us a tour bus guide for $28 each but we decided to brave it and take the bus. After yesterday's antics of rich deciding that the compass was wrong, mike suggesting that you might need a different compass for the north and south hemispheres and then Caz and I stupidly following these wise men- this may not have been the best of ideas. (sorry dad I know this will make you want to disown us!).

Anyway, after a little hitch trying to buy the equivalent of an oyster card in London and a little help from a White peruvian we managed to find ourselves in the pretty squares of PlazaSan Martin and Plazade Armas. We then got a little too confident and crossed the river (river Humber puts this river to shame) towards the shanty town. At this point some annoying 'securi dad' ruined our fun and escorted us back over the river which we later found out was because 'it's too dangerous"- whoops!

After having our first 'Ceviche' (raw seafood marinated in lime juice, onions and specs)- delicious, we headed back to our hotel for the first meeting with Gap adventures about our trek ahead. Machu Picchu!! Panic set in when we told it gets to -8 degrees at night - plan A in Cuzco - buy warmer clothes. Had a quick bite to eat- mike has now started a food blog alongside rich's beard blog and we were early to bed!

Day 4
Lima to Cuzco
Just sat in the airport about to embark our flight to Machu Pichu..... More stories to follow.

Love to all,

Nikki and the rest of Canbrough crew X