Peru
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Wednesday, 25 Aug 2010 | Views [622] | Comments [1]
Ecuador is beautiful !
I don’t know what sort of great geographical difference there is, but it seems
greener and cleaner than Peru; and the Andes….toujours impressionant (always
impressive).
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Tags: bus adventures, cuenca, ecuador, loja, peru, piura, quito
Monday, 23 Aug 2010 | Views [727]
Time: 3am Place: Piura,
Peru
Why: good
question…
I arrived in
Trujillo at 7:30 this morning and, wanting to assure my trip to Tumbes, I
bought a ticket straight away. Happy with ticket in hand, I was taken back ... Read more >
Tags: boarder crossing, chan chan, ecuador, el brujo, huaraz, loja transportes, mancorá, peru, piura, tumbes
Saturday, 21 Aug 2010 | Views [3265]
Last night I had
quite a headache from the car ride to Huascarán, and I was delighted to find
Fleur and Kuwait at the hotel, ready to chat, sympathize, and eat. We went to a
local restaurant where chicken and fries were the “in” thing, ... Read more >
Tags: boarder crossing, huaraz, huascarán, lulo, monterray, peru, trujillo, tumbes
Friday, 20 Aug 2010 | Views [586]
No space in the
bus for Trujillo tonight means I’ll be leaving tomorrow night. We’re off to
Huascarán!
* * * Observations on driving: I think the driver
makes every effort to drive on the ... Read more >
Tags: carsick, peru
Thursday, 19 Aug 2010 | Views [492]
So the previous
writings were things we learned on our way to Chavín. The ride itself was a bit
long, the ruins were nice, but not as cool as Tikal (in Guate), and the ride back was
pretty intensely long. When I got back, I knocked on Fleur and Kuwait’s ... Read more >
Tags: chavín, peru
Thursday, 19 Aug 2010 | Views [516]
[from the
bus-trip]
-travelling Peru
is not for those who get carsick
-started at
3100m; climbing to 4600m
-“Chavín” maybe
comes from “Chaupín” which meant “center of everything”
-Incas tried to
conquest Chavíñeros ... Read more >
Tags: chavín, peru
Wednesday, 18 Aug 2010 | Views [1009]
Writings while on my bus ride: My 9:30am bus has
left at 10:11am, so right on schedule =) Oh Latin America… (the movie playing
on the bus just subtitled the exclamation “swish!” as “cambio!”)
I’m still
scratching the sand ... Read more >
Tuesday, 17 Aug 2010 | Views [687]
I left the airport by taxi which took me to a stop where an...essentially hollowed out van with "Chosico" written on the front stopped, with promise from my taxi driver that they would take me to my destination, the ruins of Puruchuco. ... Read more >
Tags: bodega, huacachina, ica, peru, sand dunes, wine
Monday, 16 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery
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Monday, 16 Aug 2010 | Views [503]
Arrived! ...even if quite groggily. I zipped right through customs, took some money out, and at the inexplicably simple push-of-a-green-button, I was released!...to the hoards of taxi drivers. I'm waiting in the airport until dawn, however, before ... Read more >
