Destination: Peru
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Mon, 9 Mar 2009 | By k-lero | Views [521] | Comments [13]
Es uno de esos sitios mágicos del planeta, Machu Pichu, una de las 7 nuevas Maravillas del Mundo, y se merecía un capítulo aparte junto con Cuzco, por supuesto, para mí una de las mejores ciudades de todo el continente. La ciudad posee títulos como ... Read more >
Tags: perú, machu pichu, cuzco, valle sagrado
Mon, 15 May 2006 | By nomad_vet | Views [766] | Comments [11]
Ask any foreigner in Iquitos about Belen market & they will answer “muy peligroso” (very dangerous). “Don’t wear your watch, or take a camera, & definitely don’t spend more time there than you have to”. Good advice it may be but when Belen ... Read more >
Tags: work, animals, amazon cares, iquitos
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 | By k-lero | Views [579] | Comments [11]
Bueno, para este capítulo voy a cambiar el estilo, os voy a dejar un extracto de lo que escribí en los 7 días que estuve en barco por río para llegar hasta Ecuador. Quizás sea más largo, pero la experiencia fue única, ahí va: "8 días es lo que ... Read more >
Tags: iquitos, amazonia, napo, pantoja, coca
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 | By abeille | Views [360] | Comments [11]
Cusco is absolutely breathtaking. I guess the pun is intended. Our means of getting here was a mixture of genius and complete stupidity. We chose a 1-hour flight over a 30-hour bus ride. That was convenient, and gave us more time in Cusco, minus ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Sun, 6 Jan 2008 | By sandn | Views [305] | Comments [11]
We have just come in from a lovely afternoon/evening in cuzco city. We can not tell you how nice this place is. It is so amazingly friendly, unthreatening, clean, somewhat spiritual and lovely. It is set in the Andean mountains, so it is totally surrounded ... Read more >
Tags: mountains
Thu, 26 Jul 2007 | By mags | Views [253] | Comments [11]
My journey over to Peru was fantastic to be honest.....the only hitch l had was at Manchester airport which was my fault because my suitcase was too heavy, chose not too pay the extra, so had too dump some stuff. Didnt matter it wasnt anything of great ... Read more >
Tags: Airports
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 | By steffen_graz | Views [363] | Comments [10] | Video
Hallo liebe Leser!!!
Keine Angst, mir geht’s gut! Ich bin
auch nicht:
a.) verliebt
b.) gelangweilt vom Leben oder von der
Reise c.) gelangweilt Euch zu schreiben d.) von einer Krise betroffen e.) zu beschäftigt Euch zu schreiben ... Read more >
Tags: lima, step aerobic
Mon, 23 Feb 2009 | By cbracco | Views [212] | Comments [10]
My stay in the Amazon is halfway over. There are some things that I will not miss when I leave here. I will not miss cold showers or only having one location in the entire station where I can get drinking water. I will not miss the beaurocratic snafu ... Read more >
Sat, 1 Dec 2007 | By kim-bloomfield | Views [198] | Comments [10]
This week we went out for a regular shopping trip. The usual farmers market with small booths that have everything from produce, meats, and household items to beer. We ate plenty of fruit samples. Renee bought a ton of mangos, avocados, and other ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 | By steffen_graz | Views [171] | Comments [10]
Hola liebe Leser, nach einer sehr langen Abstinenz, hier mal wieder Neues vom Weltenbummler. Nach dem spektakulären Trip auf den San Blas Islands bin ich wieder zurück nach Panama Stadt gefahren, um dort noch ein paar Tage auszuspannen, da es auf den ... Read more >
Tags: peru, lima, cusco, machu picchu
Tue, 23 Jan 2007 | By john-leianne | Views [375] | Comments [9]
We left Toronto at 5:30 on January 22 traveling first class, what a way to go. We arrived in Lima at 1 am in the morning and then took the plane to Cusco at 6 am. January 23 our 34th anniversary, we have spent arranging tours and recovering from jet ... Read more >
Tags: The Planning Phase
Fri, 7 Jul 2006 | By nomad_vet | Views [1652] | Comments [8]
Oh my god! What a fiasco to export a dog out of Peru. Just ask Justin the vet student. I doubt he’ll ever want to hear to words ‘Peru’ and ‘dog’ mentioned in the same sentence again. That poor bugger Justin has been stuck in customs ... Read more >
Tags: i should have known better!, animals
Thu, 14 Jun 2007 | By lima_llama_loo | Views [333] | Comments [8]
We survived the Amazon jungle, complete with tribal tattoos. Canopy walkway (the highest swinging rope bridge was 36.6m above ground and ....there were 14 of them!!) - had Sophie committing to a life changing moment.....possibly now she is on terra firma this ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 8 Oct 2007 | By las_chicas_blancas | Views [323] | Comments [8]
Nå er me nettopp ferdig med ei herlig ferieveke, fullstappa av opplevelser å inntrykk!! Me har hatt 30 timer på nattbuss (lenge leve Valium)..fint å få utnytte dagene maksimalt. Konge veke, med Machu Picchu, strikkhopping fra 122m, elverafting, sandboarding, ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 2 Oct 2007 | By las_chicas_blancas | Views [261] | Comments [8]
For aa spare tid og penger, hoppa vi paa en nattbuss fra Arequipa til Cuzco. Det Jeanette aldri fikk vite (for naa) var at "although night buses to destinations are conventient, they are often not safte. Fatal accidences, hijackings, robberies and ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Thu, 17 Nov 2005 | By tjwhale | Views [700] | Comments [7]
Hello again all... The only details Julia missed in the last entry...first, the crazy bums name was Alvaro de Jesus...and it was hard to tell what was a fbrication and what was the truth. I believed it all though...and enjoyed the touch of local life.... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 | By abeille | Views [289] | Comments [7]
Tomorrow we board a boat to Yurimaguas, after a somewhat frustrating ordeal at the port today. Better spanish skillz would have been an asset, but we made it anyways, thanks to the taxi driver who helped (: taxi drivers are super nice here, it seems.... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
Fri, 5 Oct 2007 | By las_chicas_blancas | Views [243] | Comments [7]
Aguas Callientes - for ein plass! Reggae all the time, moskitos (Jeanette var oppi 146 stikk paa ein dag), varme kilder, fantastisk natur, herlig lokalbefolkning, hoye frodige fjell, elvebading og festlige israelere!! Guro og Anette skal tilbake hit ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Wed, 18 Feb 2009 | By cbracco | Views [216] | Comments [7]
Buenos Dias from the Amazon! I am staying in CICRA, a research station on the Los Amigos river in Peru. To get here I took several flights to arrive at Puerto Maldonado in southern Peru . Then I took a taxi to Laborinto an hour drive up the river. There ... Read more >
Wed, 12 Aug 2009 | By daniryan | Views [158] | Comments [7]
What a psychotic 10 days it has been. There has been laughter, tears, disappointment, shock, wonder, fascination, brain squeeze due to the altitude and ensuing numbness from the sulphur medication, hunger, overeating, thirst, sunburn (then peeling), ... Read more >
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 | By phil_and_alex | Views [143] | Comments [7]
Hello faithful readers! Are there any of you left after our dreadful blog drought? We send huge apologies for the lack of updates but have just been having too much fun. Since our last blog from Paris, we have been in and out of Barcelona, and arrived ... Read more >
Tags: barcelona, luggage, montjuic, gaudi, lima, cuzco, volunteering, sick, alpaca
Tue, 1 Sep 2009 | By phil_and_alex | Views [142] | Comments [7]
Hello all, Alex again. So its been nearly 2 weeks since I last blogged, but we´ve been in Cuzco the whole time so we haven´t done thaaatt much... Last week, we started our volunteering/spanish regime - out to our rural school from 9-12, home for lunch, ... Read more >
Tags: volunteering, sick, cafe, trivia, ruins, shopping
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 | By tpara | Views [135] | Comments [7]
I left Herbert covered and chained up in the basement carpark and was reassured by the manager that he would be well cared for. this did make me feel a little better. We flew from Lima to the desert city of Arequipa, Peru's second city taking in the ... Read more >
Mon, 26 May 2008 | By mel_mel | Views [704] | Comments [6]
Okay, are you comfortable? Do you have a coffee in hand? Better go get one. While you’re up, get something to munch on. On second thoughts, go and cook yourself some dinner (or whatever meal you need), eat your fill, grab a refreshing drink, find somewhere ... Read more >
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 | By caspar | Views [392] | Comments [6]
Buenos dias!! Maakt niet uit hoe hard er gerend moet worden om op tijd te komen voor school, een Peruaans kindje heeft altijd tijd om met hoog stemmetje, glinsteroogjes en drie missende tanden een passerende medemens een fijne dag toe te wensen. ... Read more >
