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Thu, 17 Sep 2009 | By worldfestivals | Views [4050] | Video
Location: Lima, Peru Dates: 18, 28 and 29 October Level of Participation: 3 – slip into something purple and hit the streets Description: This procession of hundreds of thousands of people ... Read more >
Tags: lord of miracles, peru, world festivals
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 | By michelle_d | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 14 Sep 2009 | By embtravelgirl | Views [2114] | Comments [1]
Talk about one of the most incredible experiences of a lifetime! That would be my yesterday. On Thursday, I began my day around 5 AM. Met up with the bus and my group for hiking the Lares Valley Trek. There were nine of us in the group with two guides, ... Read more >
Tags: machu picchu, trekking
Mon, 14 Sep 2009 | By daniryan | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 14 Sep 2009 | By daniryan | Views [913] | Comments [4]
After my Machu Picchu adventure I was looking forward to some down time in the jungle…So off I went at 5.30am on Monday August 31 to Manu. Not exactly deep Amazon, more like the Daintree in Northern Queensland, but tropical nonetheless. The seven ... Read more >
Fri, 11 Sep 2009 | By sue_hood | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 10 Sep 2009 | By embtravelgirl | Views [826]
The short version for now: I got into Cusco around lunchtime on Monday and Darcy picked me up from the airport. I´m couch surfing with him, and he´s pretty awesome. He knows a tiny bit of English, but only speaks to me in Spanish, so I´m definitely ... Read more >
Mon, 7 Sep 2009 | By embtravelgirl | Views [2654]
Wow! I´m a bit behind! My friend Jairo from Iquitos made it to Lima, and we left for Nazca the next day by bus. The bus was a double decker charter bus that cost about $22 for the 7 hour trip south to Nazca. We played Bingo, watched a couple movies (Spanish ... Read more >
Sun, 6 Sep 2009 | By daniryan | Photo Gallery
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Sun, 6 Sep 2009 | By daniryan | Views [913] | Comments [3]
After a seemingly epic five day trek from Mollepata via Salkantay Pass to Machu Picchu I'm back to tell the tale. Friday night before the trek we decided against the original plan to eat cuy (guinea pig) for dinner. Erin, my house-mate and soon-... Read more >
Tags: food poisoning, machu picchu, salkantay, trekking
Tue, 1 Sep 2009 | By embtravelgirl | Views [559] | Comments [1]
Not too much terribly interesting has happened the last few days. I have done a lot of walking around town and some resting and watching people. I visited the rocky beach of Barranco yesterday and took a tour of Pachacamac this morning. It was a bilingual ... Read more >
Tue, 1 Sep 2009 | By phil_and_alex | Views [1360] | Comments [7]
Hello all, Alex again. So its been nearly 2 weeks since I last blogged, but we´ve been in Cuzco the whole time so we haven´t done thaaatt much... Last week, we started our volunteering/spanish regime - out to our rural school from 9-12, home for lunch, ... Read more >
Tags: cafe, ruins, shopping, sick, trivia, volunteering
Sun, 30 Aug 2009 | By embtravelgirl | Views [526]
Well, I´ve had an interesting, if not strange, evening. I decided to go to the theatre. I had no idea what I was going to see, just that it was a play at the local cultural center. I grabbed some dinner from the grocery store and sat outside to eat it ... Read more >
Sun, 30 Aug 2009 | By embtravelgirl | Views [917]
So, yesterday I hung out with a group from Holy Spirit (and a few others) from back in Atlanta that were touring Peru with Msgr. Dillon. Such a small world. We basically went through many of the spots I saw when I was first here but having a tour guide ... Read more >
Sun, 30 Aug 2009 | By reilly | Views [1411] | Comments [3]
There was really only one reason I wanted to climb Copa and that was because there is a hot spring in Marcara, the access town. Oh yeah, one other reason was because it probably has the most beautiful ski descent in all of the Blanca, especially with ... Read more >
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