06/07/04- 08/07/04 Huaraz

Huaraz is the place you come to if you want to do some trekking etc in Peru, we thought we did but by the time we got here we were knackered so instead we settled for seeing it from a bus window on a tour to the Pre-Inca ruins of Chavin. The ruins were pretty spectacular most of the buildings were underground and then covered over which meant that we could only eally explore a little of the orginal site but still very impressive and in a really beautiful setting amoung hills.

The town of Huaraz is really pretty as well, it is surrounded by the most stunning mountain scenery and we even had pretty good weather while we were there which was nice.

One of my favourite bits though was finding out that the video shops would also rent you a room to watch vidoes in so that was how we spent our evenings. That and eating lots of really good chicken.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Quite watchable. 5 out of a possible 10