Peru
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Monday, 31 May 2010 | Views [838]
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 >
Saturday, 29 May 2010 | Views [799]
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 >
Wednesday, 26 May 2010 | Views [1004]
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 >
Tuesday, 25 May 2010 | Photo Gallery
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Monday, 24 May 2010 | Photo Gallery
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Sunday, 23 May 2010 | Views [622]
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 >
Friday, 21 May 2010 | Photo Gallery
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Friday, 21 May 2010 | Views [1018]
It rained
hard all night long but Moises thought we should still be able to see some
birds this morning. We towed two
small fiberglass canoes upstream to a beautiful lake and he was right. It was cool and cloudy and the birds
were very ... Read more >
Thursday, 20 May 2010 | Views [1234]
I wonder
exactly when the jungle became the rainforest. George of the Rainforest just doesn’t sound right. Nor does “It’s a rainforest out there.” But it’s not so bad to stay in a "rainforest" lodge and that’s ... Read more >
Sunday, 16 May 2010 | Views [880]
Laguna
Yarinacocha is much nicer when the sun is shining. We spend both Saturday and Sunday mornings cruising around in
Miguel’s peki-peki (the sound the
long-tail motor makes) looking for birds.
Miguel caught on quickly.
He slowed ... Read more >
Friday, 14 May 2010 | Views [567]
We haven't updated the journal in a while simply because nothing has
happened lately. We are still in the noisy, crowded and dirty city of
Pucallpa. It is literally at the end of the road - for now. From
here it's all river travel, all ... Read more >
Sunday, 9 May 2010 | Views [572]
Can you imagine 100 mothers gathering to
compete in a soccer tournament on Mothers Day? My mother certainly wouldn’t have considered it. Would yours? But in the Shipibo community of Patria
Nueva in Amazonia that is how Mothers Day ... Read more >
Thursday, 6 May 2010 | Views [770]
Once again
the Shipibo family was camped on the sidewalk outside our hotel selling
bracelets, necklaces and such.
They are so hopeful we will buy and look so pitiful when we don’t. Maybe someday. Peruvians are so polite, offering a
‘Buen ... Read more >
Sunday, 2 May 2010 | Views [700]
We thought
we had arranged transportation to Pucallpa when we were in town on Wednesday
but they never showed up. So we
loaded our bags into a mototaxi and went to one of the car companies for a
shared taxi to Pucallpa; 5 hours for 45 soles.... Read more >
Sunday, 2 May 2010 | Photo Gallery
Volunteering with IBC
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Saturday, 1 May 2010 | Photo Gallery
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Friday, 30 Apr 2010 | Views [1001]
School kids
stopped to stare as we crossed the plaza after breakfast on Tuesday, the first
time that has happened since we were in Borneo. This is a sure sign we are on the road less traveled. You don’t see many blue-eyed gringos in
this ... Read more >
Monday, 26 Apr 2010 | Views [978]
We have both
been feeling kind of punk for a while.
I have eaten little solid food since dinner last Tuesday and Connie has
been feeling queasy since Thursday.
She says it is equal parts altitude sickness, motion sickness and a head
cold.... Read more >
Saturday, 24 Apr 2010 | Photo Gallery
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Friday, 23 Apr 2010 | Views [798]
If you are coming to Cusco and want to get to
the jungle, take a look at EcoManu Center Expeditions. You don’t have to book from home,
although you can at www.ecomanuperu.com.
It’s just as easy to drop in; they
are conveniently located ... Read more >
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