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

Bag arrived just in the nick of time as we checked out of our hotel - shower, fresh clothes and 1/2 hour late for our meeting with local travel agent.  but first - funny breakfast story! As we walked into the breakfast room (at our very flash Lima hotel) Dave had a slightly 'uncomfortable' momento... sitting at the tables were very well presented business people, all set for offical business on a monday morning!  Meanwhile, he was looking rather scruffy given that he had the same c...

So we got to Paracas about 7ish, Paracas is a very pretty little place, with lots of little places to eat and drink, and a few shops, we was greeted by a man with walking sticks, selling a bunch of panama hats all on top of each other, but i didnt see anyone really buying his hats lol. We got put on a giant lookin speed boat and off we sped.  The weather was bloody hot, and we just knew we were gonna get burnt, but the wind was cold, so its one of those you dont know your get burnt days...

it's just 4 hours away from Lima.  The landscape there is very beautiful. You can also visit the islands and see the wildlife of the Pacific Ocean. The best is going there in our summer (Jan - April). Watch out! it's always windy

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.

Thursday - We made it up to the Cruz Del Sur bus station well ahead of schedule - so well ahead of shedule that it was shut!  It also happend to be in a red light district - think a South American King´s Cross!  Fortunately, the taxi driver let us wait in his cab for 40 minutes until the lights came-on and the bus station opened-up!  We didn´t notice straight away but there was a car of police parked near us, so there wouldn´t have been any problems - although it was a nervo...

We left Lima on the 8.45am bus for the 4 hour trip to Paracas, driving through the Lima suburbs until hitting the open road.  Much of the coast along here is extremely arid, with the odd green oasis popping up.  Many of the villages have large ´´Christ the Redeemer´¨ style statues on nearby hills, and the earthquake damage from a few months ago is quite obvious.  There are many collapsed or damaged buildings, and still a lot of USAID tents about.  Our hotel here is rig...

The Ballesta Islands lie a short distance off the Peruvian coast south of Lima, and we made a trip to see them on a speedboat  which in itself was a fun trip over occasionally choppy waters. On the way to the islands themselves we passed the candelabra, a pattern etched into the sand and rock of a small island not far off the coast.  The guide wasn´t overly helpful in explaining its origins - he said it might be pre-Incan, or a symbol used by Spanish sailors to navigate ...

My travels in the north of Peru, from Lima, up the coast to the border with Ecuador and then east over the Andes and into the jungle. I had to come back to Cleveland unexpectedly, but I hope to start a new travel blog as soon as I can!

I am now in Paracas while on a tour of the Southern coast of Peru.  The city might have a couple thousand residents and other than that there is nothing to do here but to work on my blog.  I was originally going to stay in the city of Pisco, but it looked pretty sketchy and my bus driver suggested I come here which is a bit bigger and on the water. I apparently left my Lonely Planet guide book in my hostal in Lima so now I am relying on the advice of others.  I sketched out&n...

The day began with a boat trip out to La Isla Balciteras out from our hotel.  We saw LOTS of Sea Lions, Blue footed Boobies and PENGUINS!!!!!  I would love to explore those caves. I felt like I should have been a pirate looking for my secret cove or something. On the ride back we admired the sand carvings of the majestic candelabra.  If that is what the Nazca lines will look like, I am waiting with great anticipation for tomorrow's trip. The afternoon began as a trip down the ...

From Lima to Andes People working. Lands of potatoes... 4000 different types!

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

Paracas - del 5 a 6 abril.- Aquí faig un altre paradeta abans d'arribar a Lima. La gracia de paracas esta en les illes ballestes i la península de Paracas. Com que ja no tinc massa temps la peninsula la deixo estar (crec que tampoc era cap meravella, es d'aquelles coses que ets un superornitoleg o estudiós dels animals o tampoc i veus el que) pero si que vaig a veure les illes ballestes, diuen que son les galapagos pobres, mmmmm... no sé. Pel camí ens ensenyen un altre dibuix a la sorra,...

For my second time in Latin America I went to visit friends in Peru and Chile, it was a lovely period of the year. Very different experiences, shows how different a Latin American country can be from another one.