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day 2 of the colca valley tour started early... at 5:30 am the high altitude influenced dreamful sleep was ended. and all that just for watching some stupid birds, condors, basically giant pigeons... i hated them already... get extinct already!the bus ride to the condor cross, a spot with a high chance of condor viewings (and an even higher chance of tourist viewings as it turned out later...) was beautiful again and guided us to the deepest canyon in the world, the colca canyon. pret...

We are exhausted from a two day tour to the Colca Canyon and back, having seen many llamas, alpacas, handicrafts and other tourists.  We also witnessed the beauty that is a condor soaring high above this morning after a 5 a.m. wake up call.  But first… I got robbed!!    Yes, after a year long on the road without having lost or had anything stolen, I fell victim to a distract and grab scheme here in Arequipa.  Our first day here, we set out to stroll the streets a...

This is a letter that I wrote to myself while in Peru this past August....im sure there are many spelling and grammer errors and I could have written it better. But thats not the point....I have decided to write myself an email today simply because I have not written in my journal on a daily basis, actually pretty much at all, and I need to write about the days that I have yet written about. But I cannot let today go by, rather this very hour without writting about this esceptionally spe...

I arrived friday around 6:30 am to Lima after a wonderful trip vacation with Frank my first travbuddy so i took a taxi and i arived home after 20 minutes  first i started to make my student homeworks  then i took a shower to keep awake to receive my students luckly they arrived around 9  am . I knew that my friend Andy was going to Arequipa then he will be traveling around the world and probably womt see him any more also another travbuddy friend Chirs was in Arequipa so i wan...

A success on my 1st TB meetup in Peru. Yadi helped me a lot on this occassions. As per my vouched for her goes like this: "You've been our travel angel, our trip facilitator, our saviour in difficult times, our muse, in short: our unbeatable VIP! Yadi worked her ass off to provide us w/ an unforgettable stay in her beautiful country (best holidays ever!)

Briefly said. The best trip you can imagine. Great culture, fantastic nice people and an outstanding nature. Really worth every penny.

To my surprise the entire Peruvian coastline is a desert.  I was expecting lush green mountains similar to what I found in the Andes of Ecuador but there are just hours and hours of gravely sand.  We passed through many dusty little shanty towns along the way.  Almost all of buildings have concrete and brick walls with long bits of rebar point at the sky on all corners.  Most of the buildings in the towns have straw roofs.  It appeared as though everyone who decided t...

I left Sunday in the wee hours of the morning. My daughter Sarah dropped me off. One of the perks of having a teen daughter. She can finally chauffer me around for once. Sarah walked with me into the airport and I had a vague guilty feeling since this is the first time I have traveled while Sarah is home and not visiting her dad in Florida. When she dropped me off at the airport she stood and watched me go through security looking all sad and dejected. I miss her already. But the good news ...

Arequipa is awesome! weather is cold...but is worthy to tolerate it! Going to Colca canyonn was a hole adventure and seeing those hugeeeeeee condors flying all over the place was pretty cool!!! Also, i enjoyed a lot the hot swim at those naturals 'aguas termales' (dont forget to do that! is so relaxing!). And i chew COCA!well the taste is so weird..and ur mouth turns green! haha so funny! but just for a little bit. As a dentist i can tell the green color goes away..but just if u dont chew it ...

Today is another Chillax day, but after Cuzco and Lima I honestly don't mind at all to have some reading and writing downtime.  I've booked myself into a 2 day Colca Canyon tour for tomorrow, and the sheer one minute effort of deciding to do that is about as much activity as I need for now!  I also went into town to upload photos, but naturally, as is my luck, the computer couldn't handle my 2 GB of data and refused to process it.  Just for fun, the towns Internet shut o...

In the morning I went rafting on the Chili river in the Chilini valley. Getting at the start location took a one hour drive. I got a wetsuit and a lifejacket and a short instruction explaining the rules and commands. Then it was time to enter the river which has a water temperature of 8 degrees Celcius. I was in a raft with three others and a guide. A second raft had 6 people and a guide. The experience was really great! At first my feet were hurting because of the cold water, but after a w...

Welcome to my Travel Blog. I will be travelling from Vancouver on the 16th of April with a short stopover in Santa Barbara then on to Guatemala on April 19th and then by land south to Argentina and flying out of Rio de Janeiro Brazil on August 27th.

After three and a half months in Central America the Odyssey continues! The basic plan is to travel south through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia Argentina and Chile...then re-enter reality in California for 2 weeks before we have to go back home.

I'm writing about my spectacular day tonight because tomorrow I embark on a three day tour of the Colca Canyon and environs.  I'd call it a trek but we only walk for part of it and that was my disappointment.  More on that later.  I want to jump right in to the account of my visit to the St. Catherine Dominican convent in Arequipa.The complex is a highlight of the city and a major reason to visit.  It's a UNESCO world heritage site and unique in South America.  What m...

some day I will create a greatest hits blog, for now it is just a boring map and some photos. Check out my separate entry for the trip from La Paz to Puno though. Mexico - Peru - Chile - Bolivia