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
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, 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
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
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 >
Sun, 4 Jun 2006 | By mcgurk77 | Views [830]
Wow what a flight, Iberia sucks as an airline. Didn´t think we where going to get fed for 12 hours. After our dodgy meal, it was a free for all and self service. British Airways have spoilt us, with indiviual TV´s and seat service, but iberia could ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Wed, 5 Aug 2009 | By thebigtrip | Views [265] | Comments [6]
This entry is written by Laura and not Stephen, for a change! After another bus breakdown and a very long bus ride we arrived in the city of Arequipa from Cusco. We got a taxi from the bus station to our hostel and as has been the case with so many ... Read more >
Tags: peru, arequipa, huacachina, sandboarding
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 | By franzi_tina | Views [113] | Comments [5]
Von unserer ersten Station, Lima, gibt es leider keine Fotos, weil wir uns erst einmal von dem unerwarteten Kaelteschock in unseren kuschligen, warmen Schlafsaecken erholen mussten. Nach 2 Tagen Winterschlaf fuhren wir mit dem Bus 7 Stunden in den Norden ... Read more >
Wed, 19 Jul 2006 | By nomad_vet | Views [14587] | Comments [5]
´Priscilla´ the oncilla (the tiger cat that we rescued from the hideous conditions at Inrena) is now ´Queen of the Casa´. She started off living in the bathroom at the vet clinic, but with escalating temperatures in Iquitos and a growing girls need for ... Read more >
Tags: Work
Tue, 17 Mar 2009 | By nickandlaina | Views [333] | Comments [5]
We got into Arequipa, Peru all 7 of us, the 4 british and us 3. We caught two of the super small mini taxis that are everywhere here in Arequipa, and arrived at our new hostel, which apperently, we now own! We were the only people in the whole hostel, ... Read more >
Wed, 13 May 2009 | By steffen_graz | Views [216] | Comments [5]
Es ist mal wieder soweit, young-talent Graz (danke Marcela Reich-Ranizki) versucht wieder sein Bestes um seine Leser zu befriedigen. Neues gibt es dieses Mal aus Peru, genauer gesagt aus Lima. Denn seit letzten Freitag bin ich in Peru und habe mein ... Read more >
Tags: lima, cuzco
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
Tue, 14 Aug 2007 | By jonno-nadia | Views [404] | Comments [5]
Since I last filled you in we have been rather busy. Firstly, Machu Picchu. As you well know this is a place of huge reputation and a major moment in our South American adventure, it started early with a 6am train for 4 hours into the jungle of Peru ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 | By caspar | Views [259] | Comments [5]
Danke mama, voor het wakker schudden van de uitblijvende comments, iets wat me toch wel dwars zat. Nu ik weer weet dat mijn avonturen toch nog de aandacht hebben zal ik jullie weer eens tracteren op een kijkje in mijn reizigers leven. Na een paar heerlijke ... Read more >
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 | By reilly | Views [213] | Comments [5]
the climb was excellent, the ski was asi asi and the views were spectacular. back in huaraz again licking my wounds but i´m planning on heading for pisco on friday. so much for acclimitizing but everything went well and managed to summit maparaju..... Read more >
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 | By stu_n_anna | Views [194] | Comments [5]
Following a flight over the Darien Gap via Swansea (congratulations Cat and Toby!), we landed in Peru on Tuesday 17 th . Keen to start adjusting to the altitude before we set off on the Inca Trail, we flew straight to Cuzco on the Wednesday morning.... Read more >
Wed, 9 Aug 2006 | By nomad_vet | Views [1649] | Comments [4]
I'm in the desert, toes dipping in the Pacific ocean. I'm in Colan, Nth Peru. How cool to wake up sweltering in the balmy heat of amazonian city Iquitos, jump on a couple of planes, & fall asleep next to the sea, being lulled to sleep by the sounds ... Read more >
Tags: work, veterinary volunteers, asociacion humanitaria san francisco de asis
Sat, 15 Mar 2008 | By bkhk4fun | Views [847] | Comments [4]
Patti: We are on the countdown to coming home and have two major events still to come. We just arrived to Cusco from Lake Titicaca (the largest lake in South America ) where we did a two day tour and visited indigenous people who still live ... Read more >
Sat, 22 Aug 2009 | By daniryan | Views [115] | Comments [4]
To top off my third weird and wonderful week in Cusco, Peru, I had a perfect ¨This is seriously surreal¨ experience. I was feeling a little odd this morning, which I´m finding is becoming my normal state of being, amongst the gamut of other emotions ... Read more >
Mon, 14 Sep 2009 | By daniryan | Views [107] | Comments [4]
After my Machu Picchu adventure I was looking forward to some down time in the jungle…So off I went at 5.30am on Monday August 31 to Manu. Not exactly deep Amazon, more like the Daintree in Northern Queensland, but tropical nonetheless. The seven ... Read more >
Sun, 6 Sep 2009 | By daniryan | Views [114] | Comments [3]
After a seemingly epic five day trek from Mollepata via Salkantay Pass to Machu Picchu I'm back to tell the tale. Friday night before the trek we decided against the original plan to eat cuy (guinea pig) for dinner. Erin, my house-mate and soon-... Read more >
Tags: machu picchu, salkantay, trekking, food poisoning
Sun, 30 Aug 2009 | By reilly | Views [93] | Comments [3]
There was really only one reason I wanted to climb Copa and that was because there is a hot spring in Marcara, the access town. Oh yeah, one other reason was because it probably has the most beautiful ski descent in all of the Blanca, especially with ... Read more >
Fri, 2 Oct 2009 | By daniryan | Views [89] | Comments [3]
It´s only been three weeks since my last babble but since then... I have been involved with a new volunteer project, watched another Cienciano game, drank more home-made Pisco Sours, danced my ass off more than once to cheesy music, saw a sunrise, ate ... Read more >
Mon, 5 Feb 2007 | By bec-and-phil | Views [4544] | Comments [5]
Well I didn´t find Paddington, but ... Phil and I made it to Bolivia and the falling down grandeur of La Paz. On the way into La Paz we stopped at the ruins of Tiahuanaca which were amazing. This civilisation pre-dated the Incas by a long way - they ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sun, 1 Jun 2008 | By alpiner84 | Views [392] | Comments [3]
Location: An internet cafè in Vilcabamba, Ecuador. Lots of big, green, lush trees and bushes outside the door. Most Recent Meal: A huge veggie sandwich and an Ecuadorian beer (great sandwich, not-so-great beer. Tastes like African beer). Mood:... Read more >
