This entry begins at the moment that we left the province of Cusco for Puno, and began to make our way over to Lake Titicaca. If you want to find out what led up to this point, you should check out our previous post: PA22: Qosqo. We made a decent chunk of progress on our first […]
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Cusco (Qosqo in romanised Quechua) was once the capital city of the Inca empire. I expect that quite a few readers are wondering whether we visited Machu Picchu. Well, we turned the idea over quite a bit during the weeks leading up to our arrival in Cusco, and eventually decided to give it a miss
After a bit of rest we headed out to do a few bog standard tourist activities in and around Ayacucho. It turned out to be Raquel’s turn to get the dreaded stomach bug. She ended up spending a couple of days laid up on the sofa recovering. She still wasn’t feeling 100% when we decided
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We rolled out of Huánuco in a busy stream of commercial traffic. Highway 3 serves as the principal North – South route in the interior of the country, so weren’t holding out much hope for a quiet journey. The roads were absolutely heaving with heavy goods vehicles. On countless occasions we experienced reckless overtakes, with
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Raquel flew into Lima for a two week spell of vacationing with me in Peru, before returning to Ecuador. Messing around in the sand dudes of Huacachina, nearby Ica. Exploring the beaches around Paracas with a scooter. Playa Roja, near Paracas. After hanging out for a week, Raquel decided that flying back to Ecuador didn’t
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I stumbled onto the minibus at 5am, mumbling my sleepy greetings to the other passengers, before settling down in the back to try and get 20 winks. The road was heavily potholed, which required the driver to constantly swerve all over the shot, making sure to keep his foot to the floor, in true Peruvian
I’ll be putting out a new blog post in a bit, I’ve just been living away from the virtual world for a spell. Hope everyone is doing well?
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All of my cycling buddies told me to go to Huascaran National Park. This was my first major stop on the way down to Argentina, and it had played a central part in my decision to set off from Quito at the time of year that I did, in order to get the best possible
What can I say about Chimbote? It’s a place that exists. I can’t imagine anyone coming here for the picturesque sea view… With the sun shining, and at the right angle, it isn’t entirely terrible. Tiradito. Absolutely smashing. The seafood is excellent. Perhaps even the best I’ve had on the planet. I reckon Peru has
PA16: On the beach
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Cajamarca had a couple of interesting pre-inca ruins nearby, and plenty of colonial Spanish architecture in the city itself. While these rock formations in Cumbemayo are not man made, it appears that the ancient Cajamarcans considered them sacred, and went to incredible lengths to engineer an aquaduct that supplied its waters to their settlements, many
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