Destination: Peru

Photos: Cusco

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 | By steve_and_emma | Photo Gallery

Cusco is very nice but very very touristy!

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 | By steve_and_emma | Views [844]

We’d bought tickets from the Power bus company the previous evening and were a little worried that it may not go since we were the only ones to have done so.   Anyway by the time we got to the station for the 8am departure there were ... Read more >

Contigo Perú : el norte

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 | By tempolibre | Views [584] | Comments [4]

Jaén, 7 aout, 17h Nous y sommes en terre péruvienne! Le passage de la frontière s'est bien déroulé et on choisit de faire escale dans une ville sans prétention qui va nous séduire très rapidement. Il fait beau, chaud, il y a des glaces et des salades ... Read more >

Tags: carnet de bord

Photos: Le riz péruvien

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 | By tempolibre | Photo Gallery

Crossing the Border to Peru

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 | By steve_and_emma | Views [450]

We grudgingly checked out of our lovely room and walked down to the bay to hop on a boat back to Copacabana.   Once back in town it took a while to rouse someone before we could pick up our bags – I think we’d been the first and last to ... Read more >

Photos: PERU

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 | By terrylobo | Photo Gallery

A walk to remember – Incan Style

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 | By travelaffair | Views [606]

Its been 40 something days since I set foot on the Incan trail and what lingers are many of the valuable lessons we picked up along the way. For those of you who never heard of the incan trail, it’s basically a trekking route in Southern Peru ... Read more >

Tags: cuzco, incan trail, machu pichu, peru

Play El Misti for Me

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 | By eriklang | Views [425]

This time, the tour bus came to our doorstep. Jill had found a cheap company running box vans to Arequipa…Peru's second-largest city, and therefore a more popular transit point than Puno.  We greeted our driver, Oscar, and took our place ... Read more >

Kuelap, in Amazonas department of northern Peru

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 | By mstep | Views [1334]

I really loved this immense ruin complex in the north of Peru. I had travelled to the town of Chachapoyas the day before from the Peruvian border with Ecuador, so I came here on my second full day in Peru. The trip from Chachapoyas to the ruins ... Read more >

Tags: archeology, chachapoyas, incas, kuelap, peru

Photos: Peru 2012

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 | By mstep | Photo Gallery

Bouncy Island Home

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 | By eriklang | Views [621]

Perhaps our greatest triumphs and tragedies occur in youth, when our skins are thin and wisdom is wrought from new experience…when the first taste is the sweetest and the first cut is the deepest. For yours truly there are seldom memories as saccharine ... Read more >

Sexy Seaside Scenario

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 | By hissyfitfashion | Views [965] | Comments [1]

Sorry for the lack of updates recently….and sorry for this rather long update, but it's been a while since I've written. I guess I’ve been keeping myself pretty busy….I started more fashion classes a few weeks ago (pattern making class twice ... Read more >

Inca Dinca Doo

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 | By eriklang | Views [386]

Although little can be done if fate fingers you for a victim of soroche sickness, Jill and I had taken all precautions possible within our power, including ample time for altitude adjustment. But, in a rookie mistake that a now globetrotter like yours ... Read more >

Belly Button of the World

Wed, 4 Jul 2012 | By eriklang | Views [502]

There are pros and cons to traveling alone. Advantages include the freedom to follow your own itinerary and move along at your own pace, as well as the oft-overlooked fact that flying solo forces you to engage with locals, as well as fellow adventurer-... Read more >

MY 14 SECOND VIIDEO B-DAY CARD and Look MA NO CRUTCHES!!!

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 | By hissyfitfashion | Views [667]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150233316538958 Thanks to my good friend Ben Wa for this Card video he sent me exactly a year ago on my Birthday.....I could watch this over and over again......CLASSIC!!!! This was the gibberish language that ... Read more >