- Cycling The Death Road
Bolivia's Yungas Road is officially the most hazardous on earth. Local people pray before using it and the nearest hospital is a two-hour drive away. In it's worst year someone died on average every two weeks. Now the main road Posted by lauraj in laura wanders | Aug 30, 2009
- Colca Canyon Condors
It's a bit of a way to go but if you're in need a hangover cure, a morning spent at this incredible place four hours away from anywhere in Peru is second to none. After a very Irish birthday celebration Posted by lauraj in laura wanders | Aug 30, 2009
- Nascar
The Nazca Lines are a series of geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert, a high arid plateau that stretches more than 50 miles between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana in Peru. Believed to have Posted by lauraj in laura wanders | Aug 30, 2009
- Going to peru
just got the tickets to go to peru for xmas
Posted by jsolsona in Little Sherpas | Aug 29, 2009
- First test
just testing the blog
Posted by jsolsona in Little Sherpas | Aug 29, 2009
- Arequipa and the Colca canyon
OK since I'm running behind on the blog, time to catch up. Sorry southern Peru.
Arequipa
Peru's second largest city, Arequipa is located in the far south, in the same dusty desert that stretches along most of Peru's coast. The city is Posted by hughw in Travels in South America | Aug 30, 2009
- Lima and Nazca
Onwards south to Lima, Peru's capital city.
Things you see around Lima
Colonial buildings
The offices of the national coca company
[img=http://photos.travellerspoint.com/195 Posted by hughw in Travels in South America | Aug 28, 2009
- Gone South
Wow, long time no post. Sorry we are not slack, just busy and don´t have lots of time to play on the internet. And we have the attitude that there´s better things to be doing than writing posts! heh. We Posted by funkzzz in The Americas 2009 | Aug 26, 2009
- Lunahuana-Huacachina
Fri 10.04.09 - Huacachina
Getting to Huacachina required 4 transitions – collectivo (mini van stuffed with people) from Lunahuana to Imperial, another collectivo to Canete, local bus from there to Ica (approx 2.5 hours leaving 2 seconds after we b Posted by cromie79 in Cromie & Andrew's Tour d'Americas | Aug 26, 2009
- Lunahuana
Thurs 09.04.09 Lunahuana
Holy week got into fifth gear today – people came to the town in the hundreds and all day and at night a festival vibe pulsated through the town. It was great to have arrived the night before Posted by cromie79 in Cromie & Andrew's Tour d'Americas | Aug 26, 2009
- Lima - Lunahuana
Wed 08.04.09 Lunahuana
Got up at 4.30am in order to get to the airport for our flight to Peru. We thought we had plenty of time to spare but learnt at check-in that the flight had been brought forward a full Posted by cromie79 in Cromie & Andrew's Tour d'Americas | Aug 24, 2009
- Classic Inca Trail....
Ok so where to begin because it has been 4 days. Four of the most physically demanding yet beautiful days of my life. I will try to explain but this may be difficult.
Day one:
We woke at 4:30 to have Posted by Kelly Rose in Here, There and Everywhere | Aug 24, 2009
- Touren in Peru
We zijn weeral veilig in ons belgenlandje aangekomen, maar ik ben u nog een paar dagen zuid-amerika tegoed.
Na onze trekking zijn we naar de Islas Ballestas gegaan, ook wel de 'poor mans galappagos' genoemd, en daarmee weet u direct de Posted by oiio in Didier ziet de wereld | Aug 22, 2009
- Trekking around Huaraz
Huaraz
I went on a day trip from Huaraz into the mountains.
Bumping up the winding stone and dust road in our trusty micro, we stopped to refuel in a 'rustic' gas station
Ensur Posted by hughw in Travels in South America | Aug 24, 2009
- Lake Titikaka and the chronicles of Ms. X
After flying back from Puerto to Cuzco I met with Christy at the airport, it was so nice to see her after our break and we went out and celebrated in the city, we woke up the Posted by monkeyboy1 in Monkey boy's travels | Aug 20, 2009
- Updates From Lima
Clearly it has been a while since my last entry. I have my reasons, none of which are important. Sometimes it is just the way of the road. Rather than bore you with a mound of details Posted by KGreene in Wandering Abroad | Aug 18, 2009
- PERU pt3, the Intrepid Tour - 'Sacred Land of the Incas'
So, after a quick pick up trip to the airport, we’re now travelling as an awesome foursome with the additions of Julie and her work colleague Genine, or Grenine as the Peruvian tour leaders would have her named, OR sister Posted by jessnsteve in Kays Odyssey | Aug 18, 2009
- Chivay, Espinar, Raqchi and now Cusco
Ok so we have been traveling around now for the last few days to places where I did not have internet acess so I am going to try and recap as best as I can.
Last place I left off at Posted by Kelly Rose in Here, There and Everywhere | Aug 18, 2009
- the first stop
i arrived in peru lima in the early morning still anxious from the flight i decided to wait to get to my hotel and decided to go sight seeing i went to the Palacio de Gobierno
or the government p Posted by jblaylock in the trip of a life time | Aug 18, 2009
- MINERS' STRIKE, CONDORS & THE COLDEST WE'VE EVER BEEN...
After an emotional goodbye with C.A.E. kids we speeded off to catch an overnight bus from Ica to Arequipa. Since we turned up at the bus terminal pretty late all tickets were already s Posted by kreglicka in WANDERLUST | Aug 18, 2009
- Double Digits
by: Tami
Maya entered the new world of double digits today! Yes, that's right, the big one-oh. This birthday was a little different, not only because of the leap to 10, Posted by RTMM in Where Are We Going | Aug 13, 2009
- Coming Home
by: Ryan
It is hard for me to believe that the first part of our trip has come to an end and we are heading home tomorrow. At times it seems like we have been traveling forever and at other Posted by RTMM in Where Are We Going | Aug 17, 2009
- On the trail of the Incas
Cusco
[img=http://photos.travellerspoint.com/183294/Sidestreet_2_-_Cusco.jpg thumb=http://photos.tr Posted by vedette in Tales from Around the World | Aug 16, 2009
- Arequipa
Yesterday we woke up with a free day to explore Arequipa. First things first...we sent our Laundry to get done since that is the only way you can do it here (Fine by me!) The city is actually a lot Posted by Kelly Rose in Here, There and Everywhere | Aug 15, 2009
- Trekking Peru
... en we zijn weer even in Lima.
tijd om mijn trouwe en minder trouwe lezers op de hoogte te brengen van mijn welzijn.
Hetgeen trouwens dik in orde is, op een ferm verbrande snoet na. We waren namelijk zo slim om Posted by oiio in Didier ziet de wereld | Aug 13, 2009