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Thu, 14 Sep 2006 | By hollycassandra | Views [801] | Comments [1]
In a post earlier this month, we wrote about how the angel-faced children of Peru had the power to melt both our hearts and our resolve: Quite often Hol, Jen and I often would save our spare change just so we could distribute it among the palms of little ... Read more >
Tags: People
Thu, 14 Sep 2006 | By hollycassandra | Views [810]
Swap your typical cocktail for a Pisco Sour, Peru’s national drink, with this recipe from the Miraflores Park Hotel in Lima, Peru: • 3 ounces pisco, available at most liquor stores (any type of grape brandy works as a substitution) • ¾ ounce juice from ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Mon, 11 Sep 2006 | By nomad_vet | Views [4118] | Comments [2]
I've just had the most bizarre experience ever. A vet pal of mine Sheradan Harvey is here to volunteer in Iquitos for a month, & her friend Jeremiah Alley decided to come down to Peru to film a pilot documentary about vets helping animals around ... Read more >
Fri, 8 Sep 2006 | By hollycassandra | Views [1176]
Spotting scarlet Macaws in the Amazon and watching the sun rise over Machu Picchu may be the stuff of adventure travel fantasies, but you haven’t really lived (or perhaps, appreciated living) until you’ve had 220 Volts of electricity running through ... Read more >
Tags: I should have known better!
Wed, 6 Sep 2006 | By clarinette | Views [2347]
The Peruvian Titicaca lake-side town of Puno which I spent a few days in was really very charming and a culturally fascinating place to visit. When I arrived in the cold late afternoon to the town, I have to say that I was not all that impressed with ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Mon, 28 Aug 2006 | By hollycassandra | Views [4219] | Comments [1]
The Lost Girls are in love with Huacachina, a desert oasis town on
Peru’s southern coast. What makes it so special? Besides being a
backpacker’s haven (we live to mingle), it’s also the sand-boarding
capital of the world. We
first heard of the ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
Mon, 28 Aug 2006 | By hollycassandra | Views [1311]
As seasoned travelers, we’ve each developed an unofficial code of
conduct to live by whenever we go global. Some collective Lost Girls’
road rules, include: Always attempt to speak the language; avoid
typically American faux pas (e.g. acting like your ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Fri, 25 Aug 2006 | By clarinette | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 22 Aug 2006 | By nomad_vet | Views [1226]
It doesn't matter that it's chilly & winter in Chiclayo, las chicas are heading out to flash hairy, white legs & check out the surf at Pimentel beach. Robin, Pam, Mindy & I flag down one of the many dented yellow daewoo taxis that do the ... Read more >
Mon, 21 Aug 2006 | By nomad_vet | Views [2766] | Comments [1]
There goes my street credibility - a wrinkly old peruvian grandma steals my purse, my 10 soles ($4 aussie) & my pride. Third time lucky for the thieves - 1st failed attempt by street kids in Santa Marta, Colombia; take 2 at Belen market in Iquitos and ... Read more >
Wed, 16 Aug 2006 | By hollycassandra | Views [6277]
We took a bumpy, three-hour bus ride from Arequipas, a white-washed city with a Spanish-colonial vibe, to the dusty, desert-like Colca Canyon. The big draw? To spot condors up close. To see the world’s largest bird, we needed to get to Cruz del Condor, ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
Wed, 16 Aug 2006 | By hollycassandra | Views [1189]
Puno, the Peruvian gateway to Lake Titicaca, turned out to be something of a slum with prisonlike, unheated accommodations, so we opted not to stay there for another night and instead take a five hour bus directly to infinitely more gorgeous “White ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
Mon, 14 Aug 2006 | By clarinette | Views [2521]
Well, I have been in a city North of Lima for the last 3 days called Huarraz, the gateway to the Cordillera blanca, in the department of Ancash (meaning "blue" in Quechua, named so, to me, for quite obvious reasons involving the quality of ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
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