Peru Travel Blogs - Page 3

It was past noon when we arrived home. First thing I did was opening the door, so Gunther could say hi to his mom! My baby!!! Of course he was waiting for me to take him to the grooming, hahaha. Scruffy or not scruffy he's my baby! He was jumping and barking, so happy!I wanted to take my backpack u…

September 2008, a success on my 1st TB meetup in Peru. During the planning im kinda uneasy how will i merged myself for Spanish speaking countries that im headin to before hittin Lima.My dialect comes with a lot of Spanish terminologies that helped me understand easily.My supposed planned was…

After being in Waynapicchu I felt really powerfull, hey this year I got a crisis, ended in the clinic and was told that ...... I have not 1 or 2, just 3 slipped discs...... ups. how,,,, noooooo idea. But since I was so great after this adventure, when I was asked to enjoy for a bike ridding tour..…

I grabbed my bags, said goodbye to Olav and jumped in the cab. Five minutes later I was at the border. As with most countries in South America there is a bit of no-man's land at the border, where no local traffic is allowed, so I had to get out and walk across the border myself. First I had to get …

We leave montreal to peru in september 28 ...it a long time i dream of this country and now the dream come true yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Connection to miami and now its time peru here we go....Arrive to lima early in morning and dont know what to do but now it time to take breakfast at the peruvien …

  In the morning it was straight to the bus station for an 8 hr journey to Piura, in Peru.  In actuality it was a 9 hr ride as we stopped at one point so the bus driver could have an hour lunch break, something I wasn’t too happy about as I really wanted to catch the bus to Mancora tha…

Today we are up early again as we are now leaving, the end of the trip almost for some and end of my Peru portion.We board our jungle boat again and head back to Puerto Maldonado. It starts to rain abit and we put the canopy down for a bit on route to the van pick up.We get back to town, grab our b…

We left Amsterdam on the 23th of may. We only had 2 tickets to Lima and we organised nothing, thats exploring the world! After 27 hours of traveling we finally arrived at the airport of Callao and a taxi driver was waiting for us to bring us to the hotel. The hotel was nice, the staff was nice a…

It's Monday and I found the results of the Food Festival contests everywhere, hahaha, website, newspapers, tv. These are the winners or should I say the places I have to try until the next Festival, hahaha. Snacks:Best Anticucho: Gloton's (tried with a TB after the Festival and it was so good)Best …

It was our first full day in Peru and we were met early in the morning (6:30 am) by our travel representative.  He took us to the bus depot where we waited for our 7:30 am bus to Pisco.  The drive to Pisco took approximately 3 1/2 hours.  We arrived at the Hotel Paracas shortly befor…

Personally, I prefer to discover a city just by my own.  I mean, I don't like going with a guided tour. But this time was different. My boss came to Lima during Easter and before being able to travel to our destinations in South America, we had to spend some free time in Lima. He has been her…

Other activitiesOn the night of the meeting, we meet at the home of one of the collectors and we going to a dinner at the club named "Brisas del Titicaca", which have a show that the first part was a bad copy of the Bolivian folklore, indicating that Folk was from "Alto Peru", in a very appropriate…

We got back to Cusco and were picked up at the airport by our travel agent friend Milagro from SAS who had found a couple of alternative places to stay for our last five nights in Cusco.  We ended up opting for the Plaza de Armas hostal which overlooks the main square and actually had both hea…

Some random impressions and thoughts about Lima gathered in my first 3 weeks here:CLIMATE:It never rains in Lima.  At most there is a fine mist that comes down for hours in the late evening or night and eventually accumulates a bit on the ground.  Most of the greenery either survives well…

After a great sleep (meetup recovery), I even had the energie to work-out before I met up with the group for lunch in Miraflores. Ok, this time I arrived to the right church to find 5 or 6 TB's waiting. We walked to Mango's a nice place perched on the top of a bluff overlooking the S…