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Sun, 6 Jun 2010 | By julio_martinez | Views [1062]
Chachapoyas is a very rural region, its capital town just have 25.000 inhabitants, the roads are generally unpaved and in bad condition, and it takes ages to arrive here, where the jungle meets the green side of the Andes. There, some of the best ... Read more >
Mon, 31 May 2010 | By fieldnotes | Views [942] | Comments [1]
The
overnight bus from Chiclayo left nearly on time and we arrived in the dusty
town of Tumbes around seven on Sunday morning. We are just a few kilometers from the border with Ecuador
and this is our last stop in Peru.
The sole reason ... Read more >
Sun, 30 May 2010 | By julio_martinez | Views [2990]
So there I went, to the amazon and to the jungle... I couldn't help being in Southamerica for 3 months and not visiting the amazon. Iquitos was the entry point, and it happened that I met my friend Stephane the day before in Lima, and he had booked ... Read more >
Sat, 29 May 2010 | By fieldnotes | Views [992] | Comments [1]
Another bus
ride yesterday brought us to Chiclayo, three hours from Trujillo. For a city of 600,000 there isn’t much
to do if you aren’t interested in brujos ,
the witches and shamans that the city is known for. But it is a good base for ... Read more >
Wed, 26 May 2010 | By fieldnotes | Views [1166]
As we moved north from Lima we traveled back
in time with the cultures that pre-dated the Inca. A 9-hour bus ride took us to Trujillo, an oasis in the
coastal desert, and to the Moche culture from 200 AD. The Moche people constructed their ... Read more >
Tue, 25 May 2010 | By rjenkins | Views [631]
Went to the Uros floating islands on the 17th and they are really interesting, Lake Titicaca is the only place in the world they exist, and becuase of that they have become slightly touristy but most of the traditional things are still there. The islands ... Read more >
Tue, 25 May 2010 | By rjenkins | Views [502]
well not much to say about Puno really it´s not the nicest town and everything seems to be half finished. It was also made worse by the fact that I got attacked by 2 dogs at the view point near the hostel. They only just grazed my leg but thought better ... Read more >
Tue, 25 May 2010 | By julio_martinez | Views [985]
Nazca is famous for the misterious Nazca lines, huge drawings made from precolumbian cultures, dating from 500 years b.c. They were discovered only when comercial flights started to operate on the area, as these lines can hardly be recognized from the ... Read more >
Tue, 25 May 2010 | By fieldnotes | Photo Gallery
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Sun, 23 May 2010 | By fieldnotes | Views [746]
With over
600,000 people Iquitos is the largest city in the world not accessible by road,
Peru’s version of Juneau. It saw
its heyday in the early 1900s with the rubber boom but that ended when some
plants were smuggled to SE Asia where they ... Read more >
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