Peru
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Saturday, 16 Sep 2006 | Views [1634]
When we first nominated Peru to be the inaugural country on our big jaunt around the world, there was one thing we all agreed on – exploring the jungle was non-negotiable! Sure, we’d all been in rainforests before in countries like Costa Rica, Belize ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Friday, 15 Sep 2006 | Views [861]
Jen, Holly and I had stayed longer in Cuzco, Peru than almost any other gringo we'd met--nearly three weeks--and I was starting to feel like we'd simply relocated to a new town. It was time to journey on. We decided to brave the sub-zero winter temperatures ... Read more >
Tags: I should have known better!
Thursday, 14 Sep 2006 | Views [734] | Comments [1]
In a post earlier this month, we wrote about how the angel-faced children of Peru had the power to melt both our hearts and our resolve: Quite often Hol, Jen and I often would save our spare change just so we could distribute it among the palms of little ... Read more >
Tags: People
Thursday, 14 Sep 2006 | Views [746]
Swap your typical cocktail for a Pisco Sour, Peru’s national drink, with this recipe from the Miraflores Park Hotel in Lima, Peru: • 3 ounces pisco, available at most liquor stores (any type of grape brandy works as a substitution) • ¾ ounce juice from ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Friday, 8 Sep 2006 | Views [1112]
Spotting scarlet Macaws in the Amazon and watching the sun rise over Machu Picchu may be the stuff of adventure travel fantasies, but you haven’t really lived (or perhaps, appreciated living) until you’ve had 220 Volts of electricity running through ... Read more >
Tags: I should have known better!
Monday, 28 Aug 2006 | Views [4115] | Comments [1]
The Lost Girls are in love with Huacachina, a desert oasis town on
Peru’s southern coast. What makes it so special? Besides being a
backpacker’s haven (we live to mingle), it’s also the sand-boarding
capital of the world. We
first heard of the ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
Monday, 28 Aug 2006 | Views [1187]
As seasoned travelers, we’ve each developed an unofficial code of
conduct to live by whenever we go global. Some collective Lost Girls’
road rules, include: Always attempt to speak the language; avoid
typically American faux pas (e.g. acting like your ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Wednesday, 16 Aug 2006 | Views [6194]
We took a bumpy, three-hour bus ride from Arequipas, a white-washed city with a Spanish-colonial vibe, to the dusty, desert-like Colca Canyon. The big draw? To spot condors up close. To see the world’s largest bird, we needed to get to Cruz del Condor, ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
Wednesday, 16 Aug 2006 | Views [1124]
Puno, the Peruvian gateway to Lake Titicaca, turned out to be something of a slum with prisonlike, unheated accommodations, so we opted not to stay there for another night and instead take a five hour bus directly to infinitely more gorgeous “White ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
Monday, 31 Jul 2006 | Views [677]
Travel has a way of bringing you back to the very basics of life—food, shelter, warmth and um, bodily functions. The sad fact is, Holly, Jen and I have spent far more time discussing the bathroom and what goes on inside of it than any other topic, and ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
Monday, 31 Jul 2006 | Views [734] | Comments [1]
Travel has a way of bringing you back to the very basics of life—food, shelter, warmth and um, bodily functions. The sad fact is, Holly, Jen and I have spent far more time discussing the bathroom and what goes on inside of it than any other topic, and ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
Tuesday, 18 Jul 2006 | Views [1629]
After sharing co-ed dorm rooms with very stinky (male) roommates at one germ-infested hostel, freezing our asses of at another that had neither heaters or hot water and coming down with fevers, stomach cramps and general ickiness, the Lost Girls finally ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Monday, 10 Jul 2006 | Views [1321]
The Lost Girls hit the town for our first night out in Lima, Peru. Our quest for our first Pisco sours ended at a trendy restaurant, Scena, in Miraflores (Lima’s most cosmopolitan neighborhood), where we quickly learned how just a view sips of this potent ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
