Destination: Peru

Cusco Peru - Tourist City

Mon, 22 May 2006 | By will | Views [8040] | Comments [2]

Come to Cusco , all of tourist life is here. Having now traveled in Central and South America for seven months, this is the first town I’ve arrived in that accommodates nd welcomes every kind of tourist. Of course, most of them don t come to see ... Read more >

Tags: Observations

out of Cusco

Fri, 19 May 2006 | By ldeutch | Views [734] | Comments [2]

Well, after some delay, I left Cusco feeling like I did all I could do with my work, but still very sad to leave behind some dear friends, and the nice life I had settled into. Exhausted and a bit sick from the chaos that was the last few days, I cried ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Gallery: Lares Valley Trek

Wed, 17 May 2006 | By willlou | Photo Gallery

The Lares Valley Trek.

Wed, 17 May 2006 | By willlou | Views [5809]

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 [4498] | 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 [3103] | 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 [1456] | 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 [2861]

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