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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 | By ivanci | Views [1067] | Comments [1]
Our introduction to Cordillera range starts with a seven hours bus ride from Chimbotte to Caraz via spectacullar Cañon del Pato. Unsealed road winds through unbelievable terrain with mountains rising 1000m above valleys. We have to cross several passes ... Read more >
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 | By dysfunctional | Views [1055] | Comments [2]
Wow, what an epic adventure! We´re here at The Point Hostel in Arequipa, Peru,
sadly shaking our heads in a confused state of self-imposed
bewilderment and dehydration. We had the most epic day
yesterday/today. In the earlier stages of our trip, ... Read more >
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 | By eoghancito | Views [1154]
Day One 7/10/2008 After waking up with 15 minutes to pack up our room and a hangover to match all hangovers, I left Eoghan to go and arrange my home stay and Spanish lessons. Due to a protest in Cuzco (there is rather a lot of them!) I was unable to ... Read more >
Tags: class, cold, homestay, spanish
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 | By eoghancito | Views [2423]
So the alarm went off before I wanted it too and I lugged myseof out of my bed to make my way down to the treking agency. Its always kind of intersting seeing who else will be on the trip but even more so when you´re first in the van! The crew for the ... Read more >
Tags: biking, chill, diahorrhea, football inca temple
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 | By colin_and_lou | Views [579] | Comments [1]
At the airport we get to eat the little pack breakfast given to us by the owner of the One hostel as we missed breakfast this morning, as we left so early, lovely, a lttile box of cerals, yogurt drink fruit juice real luxary stuff mmmmm. We fly from Lima ... Read more >
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 | By tpara | Views [521] | Comments [1]
Aguas Calientes is set up for the hordes of people day visiting the Machu Picchu site and for the midges that feed on them. These little insects bite anywhere and everywhere, including through fingernails, we were glad to leave. The train back to Cuzco ... Read more >
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 | By eden | Photo Gallery
our two day excursion on the amazon
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Thu, 9 Oct 2008 | By eoghancito | Photo Gallery
Cusco and around
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Wed, 8 Oct 2008 | By eoghancito | Views [1177] | Comments [1]
Cusco is a really special place, for lots of reasons. We just wandered around for the first day, trying to get used to the altitude. At 3400m it´s pretty high here, and as our hostel (which is lovely and cheap, my favourite combination!) can only be ... Read more >
Tags: cusco, disco, horse riding, inca ruins, irish pub, theatre
Tue, 7 Oct 2008 | By steph_dave | Views [848]
Can’t help but think that that name should come with a ‘boom
boom’ at the end. After we flew back to Cusco from Puerto Maldonado we got a bus straight (I say
straight, we were delayed buy an hour because of some kind of carnival) to
Puno. It’s ... Read more >
Tags: floating island, lake titicaca, puno, uros
Mon, 6 Oct 2008 | By tpara | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 6 Oct 2008 | By tpara | Views [576] | Comments [5]
The morning of the trek arrived with a bus picking us up for the journey to Ollantaytambo at km 82 of the trail. The trek team was yours truly and five women a really fabulous group we all got on famously. Day one was a gentle climb, we covered 12 kms ... Read more >
Mon, 6 Oct 2008 | By eoghancito | Views [1587]
We woke up with terrible hangovers following the Pisco Sour fuelled excesses of the previous night. I suppose after 2 weeks of relative good behaviour we needed to blow some steam off. But it still felt horrible. We stumbled to a cafe to have a sandwich and ... Read more >
Tags: arequipa, bus, cuzco, hangover, shave
Fri, 3 Oct 2008 | By eoghancito | Views [1936]
Alarm at 4.30 this morning, ready for the fional 1200m ascent back to Cabanaconde. We had decided to leave earlier so as to minimise the amount of climbing we would have to do in the sun. It was still dark and prety chilly as we set off, our legs grumbling ... Read more >
Tags: arequipa, colca canyon, dancing, pisco sour, thermal baths, trekking
Thu, 2 Oct 2008 | By eoghancito | Views [1478]
The alarm sounded at 6.15am and dawn was just starting to break as we had our breakfast of pancakes and luke warm coffee. The plan was to leave as early as feasible so we could trek in the shade for as long as possible. 5 hours after we set out at 7am ... Read more >
Tags: colca canyon, oasis, trekking
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