Destination: Peru
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Thu, 7 May 2009 | By kaplan | Views [476]
Este título capicúa (palabra tomada del catalán, por cierto) me viene que ni pintado para describir esta ciudad, una colmena de ocho millones y medio de habitantes (7.600.000 más el millón de la provincia constitucional de Callao). Y es que la vida aqui ... Read more >
Tags: ciudades
Wed, 6 May 2009 | By kaplan | Views [503] | Comments [1]
Después de llegar tempranito a Cuzco (a veces el fútbol puede conseguir lo que uno mismo no logra, y hoy juega el Barça por la final de la Champions) llego al hostal donde Carlitos me está esperando ya. Como todavía es pronto me acerco al Convento de ... Read more >
Tags: lugares
Wed, 6 May 2009 | By robrobjos | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 5 May 2009 | By kaplan | Views [487]
Abandono Machu Picchu y salgo despedrando escaleras abajo. El camino es largo en el retorno a la hidroeléctrica y no quiero que se me haga demasiado tarde. Tengo que llegar a Santa María al menos antes de las siete de la tarde. A esa hora los transportistas ... Read more >
Tags: highlights
Tue, 5 May 2009 | By kaplan | Views [592] | Comments [1]
Al final eran unos 1.800 los peldaños de subida hasta la muy controlada entrada a Machu Picchu (120 soles el boleto, unos 30 euros, hace que sea interesante que no se cuele nadie, no?). Los subo en unos 40 minutos, antes de lo que esperaba, y decido ... Read more >
Tags: highlights
Fri, 1 May 2009 | By melissamain | Views [843] | Comments [3]
I have patience honed I sit on a boat, waiting, whilst the captain, a smiling man with leathery skin, a handknitted hat and dry dry feet does something underneath the decking. His first mate hustles up some more business. I am grateful for this, ... Read more >
Tags: boat, captain, patience
Tue, 28 Apr 2009 | By melissamain | Views [1033]
She is passed out on the couch to the side of the bar. Though she rouses herself enough to lean over the arm of the chair and throw up. I can´t see her face, but she is pale and wears the tell all travel shoes. -Do you speak English? I ask, confident ... Read more >
Tags: drunk, lost, new zealand, perdida
Tue, 28 Apr 2009 | By melissamain | Views [1673] | Comments [1]
There is a sea of pale straw larger-than-life cowboy hats that only come out on occasions such as this. We purchase an umbrella from one of the dudes walking around which later inspires the occasional beer bottle caps to be thrown at us throughout the ... Read more >
Tags: bullfighting, bulls, hats, sport, toros
Sun, 26 Apr 2009 | By nick_earl | Views [924] | Comments [3]
We have arrived in Cuzco, Peru. Inka capital and centre of the Inka empire. Here are a couple of diary entries from our last two days in Bolivia. 8th April - Bus to Copacabana Sitting on the bus today was a great way to watch the world go by. You ... Read more >
Sun, 26 Apr 2009 | By melissamain | Views [1294] | Comments [6]
Up we go. 6075 metres above sea level is our goal. We cheat by getting a troupie to drive us up to 4030. I get out of the car with a dizzy head. My lungs try to be bigger. My heart pumps faster to try and compensate. We pack our bags and walk ... Read more >
Tags: altitude sickness, caffeine, up, volcano
Wed, 22 Apr 2009 | By melissamain | Views [730] | Comments [1]
But today, I´m playing being a nun. I pay a large fee at sunset to be allowed into a 15th Century convent. Someone leaves candles in the corners of the rooms so one can see ghosts in the the twisting, rocky, catacomb-like, barricaded city within a city.... Read more >
Tags: amazing grace, convent, nun, nunnery
Wed, 22 Apr 2009 | By nickandlaina | Views [2110] | Comments [2]
The rest of our time in Lima flew by, not to mention the
arrival of Mom, Holly and Uncle Don! We spent the last few days befor ethey
showed up investigating the catacombs underneath Cathedral San Fransisco, exploring
the Lima gold museam, and ... Read more >
Wed, 15 Apr 2009 | By cbracco | Views [956]
I wasn’t expecting to update a travel journal several weeks after returning home. After all, I’m not travelling anymore. But since a bit of the jungle hitched a ride home with me, another post seemed appropriate. After taking it easy in Cusco for a ... Read more >
Tue, 14 Apr 2009 | By shanensa | Views [493]
So, I´m blogging, like the title says, and this is strange for me, to attempt journaling without pen and paper, I´m not sure if my thoughts are going to line up right, right away, it may take awhile. Also, this keyboard has ¨sticky keys,¨ highly distracting.... Read more >
Sat, 11 Apr 2009 | By ivan_miral | Views [1840] | Comments [3]
Traveling. I am still finding it like
a magnifying glass on life, showing how things always are, but in
unusually vivid ways. This time, the life-truth that when things
don't seem to be working out as planned, a ... Read more >
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