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Pre-Inca Peru: The Sacred City of Caral

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [195]

WITH APOLOGIES TO RED SKELTON, we flew in to Lima yesterday and, boy, are our arms tired! The flight was only three hours long but after getting up 2:30 in the morning for the only direct flight from Salta, it’s not just our arms but our entire ... Read more >

Pre-Inca Peru: Chavín de Hauntar

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [114]

THE ROAD FROM HUACHO TO HUARAZ took five hours, had hundreds of hairpin turns and climbed 13,000 feet into the Andean Cordillera Blanca before descending to the sprawl that is Huaraz. Our suite at Villa Valencia was another gem, the equal of many of ... Read more >

Pre-Inca Peru: El Brujo

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [100]

BASED UPON THE CARVINGS AT EL BRUJO, the Moche weren’t the friendliest people—pretty much what you would expect from people ruled by Warrior-Priests who worshipped a god known as Decapitator at a site called El Brujo (sorcerer) by the Spanish ... Read more >

Pre-Inca Peru: Cerro Sechín and Chanquillo

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [85]

WE DECIDED TO BYPASS CERRO SECHIN and Chankillo on our way north and save them for our return to Lima. Photos of Cerro Sechin depicted intricate carvings on real rock, not mudstone, and we figured we would see much more at the site. Not. ... Read more >

Lima, More or Less

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [83]

CALLAO IS A PORT FOR CARGO SHIPS and Oosterdam stood out like an evening gown at Walmart. We docked around 2 PM Sunday and would be in port until Tuesday evening, just time enough for the well-heeled to take the Holland America excursion to Machu Picchu ... Read more >

Pre-Inca Peru: Chan Chan

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [78]

AFTER THREE CONSECUTIVE DAYS of 5+ hour driving we deserved a little R&R and Wyndham’s Costa del Sol in Trujillo was just the ticket with a quiet location, nice rooms, secure parking, a wonderful restaurant—even a wandering pair of llamas.... Read more >