Journey's End

We had a bit of a lie in on the last day, till 7am in fact!!! One breakfast buffet later we were on our way, back on the boat to Puerto Maldonado.

We got back to the office of the Amazon tour company without incident, but then we were left cooling our heels. Apparently we were due to be picked up at 11, for our 12.45 flight (or something like that), but at 11.20 there was no sign of anyone. I went and found some lady, and she sorted it out. Given that the airport was 15 minutes away, and it took 15 minutes for someone to get to us I'm pretty sure they forgot, so good job I asked. At any rate we were in plenty of time for the flight.

At Lima airport I sadly had to say goodbye to everyone but Claire and Steve, who were also goingto Atlanta, before we sat down to wait for the 6 odd hours until our flight. I had a Subway, and a multi-coloured ice cream, and the time passed relatively quickly, thankfully. We saw boxing legend Don King at the airport, and he was very annoying, always making noise and etc. A woman did ask him if he would buy her dinner though, to which he replied" No, I'm gonna give you some money, so you can buy yourself dinner, because that's how I do it" or something like that, so that was mildly amusing.

The flight was "overnight", 11.55pm-7.05am (or something close to that at any rate), but they had to feed us before and after sleep, so i only go a couple of hours, if that, and I'm not exactly great at sleeping on planes, so I don't even know if I actually slept.

7 hours more waiting at Atlanta ensued. I'm glad I had my kindle, since I just kept getting books, and the time actually flew. I had a pulled pork burrito, and a burger and shake whilst in the airport. I must also say the airport staff were a lot more pleasent this time round.

The flight to JFK was only a couple of hours, so I watched most of a film, and then had another 3 hours to kill before my final flight. They too went fairly briskly, and then it was time to eat before and after another 4 hours of not quite sleep on the 7 ish hour flight into Heathrow.

Mercifully getting through immigration was quick, and there were no closure on the tube on the way to Kings Cross, though it still takes an hour! once I got to Kings Cross I found out that I had lost my return ticket, and had to pay £83 to replace it. Woe is me. Honestly though, I was too tired at that point to care really, enough so that it softened the blow anyway.

So that's it. I arrived into Rotherham safely about 12.30, and my journey was over. I had a fantastic time, and if anyone else is considering going to Peru I would say do it, without reservation!

I have been back through now and added photos from my cameras where appropriate, so enjoy those, and I hope you enjoyed my blog!