Destination: Peru

Gallery: Lares Valley Trek

Wed, 17 May 2006 | By willlou | Photo Gallery

The Lares Valley Trek.

Wed, 17 May 2006 | By willlou | Views [5752]

We have just returned from a three day trek that starts in the Sacred Valley, and which is known as the Lares valley trek as it ends in the small town of Lares. As we don’t like doing tours we organized things ourselves and carried our own kit and ... Read more >

Tags: Mountains

Gallery: Inca trail & Machupichu

Wed, 17 May 2006 | By robin | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Cuscu

Wed, 17 May 2006 | By robin | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Lake Titicaca

Wed, 17 May 2006 | By robin | Photo Gallery

Mobile dog neuter clinic in Belen

Mon, 15 May 2006 | By nomad_vet | Views [4451] | 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 >

Gallery: Mobile neuter clinic in Belen - Amazon Cares, Iquitos

Mon, 15 May 2006 | By nomad_vet | Photo Gallery

My home is the street

Mon, 15 May 2006 | By nomad_vet | Views [3087] | Comments [1]

It’s wonderful to be back in Iquitos to volunteer with charity Amazon Cares & to help the abandoned cats & dogs. Iquitos is the kind of city I love to live in. It’s bursting at the seams with people – 400,000 more or less – many of whom spend ... Read more >

Bartering in Lima

Tue, 9 May 2006 | By nomad_vet | Views [1427] | Comments [2]

My hostel in Lima “The Flying Dog” has a very chilled out resident ginger tom cat called ‘Slappers’. What a unique & novel name & surely the 1 st I’ve met. Slappers is a rather relaxed individual who ambles about the hostel & sleeps ... Read more >

Gallery: Iquitos

Tue, 9 May 2006 | By nomad_vet | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Lima

Tue, 9 May 2006 | By nomad_vet | Photo Gallery

Cusco and the Sacred Valley

Mon, 8 May 2006 | By willlou | Views [2845]

We´re in Cusco, which for the Incas was the “navel of the world”, the centre of their massive empire which ran from southern Colombia to northern Chile.   When the Spanish conquered   Cusco in the 16 th century they symbolically demolished the ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Gallery: Cusco and the Sacred Valley

Mon, 8 May 2006 | By willlou | Photo Gallery

Machu Pichhu

Fri, 5 May 2006 | By ldeutch | Views [2462] | Comments [3]

<p>Well, 2 months into my stay here in Cusco, I made it to Machu Pichhu. After much negotiation and delay, I arranged to go with a friend- guide (who I quickly learned is a much better friend than guide), and another girl, Chetana,  from the states.... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Gallery: Machu Pichhu

Fri, 5 May 2006 | By ldeutch | Photo Gallery