Peru Travel Blogs - Page 9

Well here I am at the Lima airport after 24 hours of travel so far. Yesterday after I had packed everything into my brand new pack ordered online from Mountain Equipment Co-op, I put the damn thing on on my way out the door and... oh crap it was sooooo uncomfortable! Really badly designed I …

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 b…

Hi friends, I am back in Iquitos Peru. Sorry I haven't posted here lately. I do better when I can obsess on one or two problems. I have been working on too many problems. I had to decide which were most important and work on those. This blog suffered.  Now I want to report what my crew and I h…

Lima - The city tour It was not a city tour of the Commons, was a city tour that took us to know through the Lima sites that normally do not go the tours for tourists.   Besides touring along the main sites, the districts of San Isidro, Chorrillos, Los Olivos, Miraflores, and so on, we were in…

My first friend was Mike from Australia i met him around 2 years ago he invited to me to join this webside then I met Local travbuddy in Lima Like Yadira, Romain then we made a mini meet up with Soledad from US.2 colomnian friends Diana and Marcela came to Peru and we met all together in Romain Apa…

The photographs and books I have read for most of my life just don't do it justice. I caught a cab to the train station early, early in the morning. I took the backpacker train, so no fluff. However, they did serve a really nice cocoa leaf tea that really tasted good and seemed to give me a little…

I travelled for a month In South America, went to Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. During that month, I visited many places for the time I had, so I didn't spend enough time at a same place to know people and their culture. Usually I visit less places but try to meet and live a bit more with locals. Next time I will be going to this part of world, I will focus more on people ;)

I woke up this morning to find that I could not bend my right leg anymore. Apparantly I've been walking a little bit too much the last couple of days.I managed to pack my things just in time to catch the bus to the airport, because today I was going back home. First there was a one hour flight to L…

These are trips i made around the 3 regions of my country

Peru is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. The Peruvian territory was home to the Norte Chico civilization, one of the oldest in…

From Vilcabamba south towards Peru most maps show a road going only as far as Zumba, a 5-6 hour bus ride away. In fact, there is a road, or more accurately a dirt track that runs south from Zumba to La Balsa, which sits at the Ecuador-Peru border. So I was in fact going where the roads do not …

First thing. Taxis. Anywhere not withing walking distance, you're pretty much going to have to use them. But they're dirt cheap and fun to ride in. They ARE going to try to rip you off. They see white faces and see $$. So kinda be wary and ask more than one taxi how much it is to different places y…

We work a lot in the amazon and so to celebrate the great year our company had we decided to bring a little joy to a community directly within our area of operations. San Lucas is but a small village not very far from Iquitos, the capital of the peruvian amazon state of Loreto. Of course every soci…

As a peruvian i can tell that CUZCO is the best place from Peru!!! Is the feeling of the city! the enviroment! everybody is in good mood! everybody is happy! And over there u can go to Macchu Picchu! nominated to be one of the SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD!!! This place is full of history!!!! is just …

Deep fried rodents, bull fights, mountain sickness, coca leaves, Large Pisco Sours and mescaline...aaahhh Peru..