La Gringa en El Peru

Learning "Peruvian Punctuality" which is an oxy moron....

 

Wish you were here?

Hi, After we left you on Monday afternoon we took a walk from our hotel down to the Tulum ruins on the beach. We didn't have the place to ourselves like at Chichen Itza unfortunately but most of the tour buses had departed. The ruins are of a Mayan...

 

ECUADOR!

 

World Trip 2007-2008

We finally got to this place called "San Pedro de Atacama", a tiny little town in the middle of a plain in the Atacama desert that was surrounded by mountains in the far distance. Some of the houses and their rooves were made of mud. The road...

 

South America 2006

Scored emergency exit row seats for our two longest flights over (Sydney to Auckland then Auckland to Santiago), which made the 24 hour trip a bit less torturous. Chile (the airport at least) was quite chilly, and then so was Buenos Aires, but it wa...

 

A New Travel Bug - 5 of the 7 "New Wonders of the World"

Alrighty then, back to the travel saga. It wasn´t a particularily early start on Wednesday the 14 for our long journey to Puno, Peru. A totally human hour of 8:00am made everyone happy. All of our luggage was put onto of the van and covered, gi...

 

Peru Again - Nth to Sth

A sad farewell to Mancora was made with a few beers on the beach, another fantastic sunset and star wars empire strikes back. We reached the bus stop and our fulash bush turned up (late of course) but it was full, overbooked by 4 people. We argued fo...

 

2004.11~2005.02 South America

Month 1 of our 4 month trip through South America. We started our journey back at the beginning of November with a few days in Buenos Aires, and although we’re not normally that keen on big cities, we really enjoyed it. The city is very cosmopolitan...

 

South American Adventures

After arriving at 6am, going to a hostel to be told they only had 3 beds (there are 6 of us), we decided to book ourselves onto a tour that left at 8am to visit the mines of Potosi. These mines are run by cooperatives and only pay minimal taxes which ...

 

Peru

Our next destination was Huaraz (3090m above sea level) which is is set in the middle of snow capped Mountains. A Little Swiss town type feel to it. Wow.. ... What a beautiful place to live. It has the view of the highest Peruvian mountain from it - Co...

 

Goodbye Edinburgh, Hello World

Well, apparently our time is nearly up and we're having to return to dear old Blighty very soon. Life's a beach, isn't it? Well it has been for us recently, anyway. We've been in Thailand for around two months now. It's the kind of place where nothi...

 

RTW with Steph and Dion

Written by Dion August 11-12, 2006 We decided to spend a couple of days in Uruguay, so we boarded the 9:00AM Buquebus ferry from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay on Friday morning. The ferry itself was quite nice and the rid...

 

ROUND THE WORLD

Spent only 2 days in Arequipa, leaving us too little time to visit the nearby Colca canyon. Instead we rested and visited the charming Santa Catalina monastery....

 

3 weeks to go in London

Starting this off 9 months into the trip probably seems a bit strange but I've decided that I would like to have some type of memory like this that is official rather than lots of bits and pieces and scribbled bits of paper all over the place when I do...

 

Gap Year 2003

Lima, Peru Flying vist back through Lima on way south to Pisco...

 

Round the World Trip 2006/07

We arrived in La Paz on Thursday afternoon. It is absolute mayhem here! Buses, taxis, combis and people everywhere. Crossing the road is a challenge in itself. We went to an Asian restaurant for our farewell meal on Thursday night. Having not had a cur...

 

Peru

23 May 07 Afternoon Trip to Cahuachi, Estaqueria and The Aquaduct We didn't want to waste today clock-watching for our night bus so we booked ourselves on to a tour which left at 1.30pm, an hour after check out. The tour lasted about 4 hours and to...

 

THE HOT ADVENTURES OF A NOT COLD BIATCH

Had to draaag myself out of bed and realised I had absolutely no idea what I had booked for myself so couldn't really pack for my overnight stay on an island on Lake Titicaca. So kept the rest of the group waiting while I, completely flustered, threw s...

 

Des & Tom´s Latino Adventures!

Saturday 8th April// Sunday 9th April//...

 

South America Adventures

Ok guys, can´t remember where I left you, but I now have friends! Horray! My room mate is called Liz, not Elizabeth Rose as I 1st feared... she´s got a great sense of humour and I´ve threatened to call her by her official title from h...

 

worldtrip 2002-2003

I travelled around the globe during 1 year. Continents i visited: South-America, Fiji-islands, NZ, OZ, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, India and Nepal....

 

South America II: Peru, Colombia, Venezuela July - October 2006

Arrived in Huaraz at 11pm from Lima to find ourselves amidst a street party for Huaraz´s 149th birthday. Accomm was very scarce but we (eventually) found a room at Landauro Hostal and then joined the dancing in the street to a live band on a huge ...

 

Grand ol' world tour

The Navimag cargo ferry, our home for five nights and the best fun you can have on a ship loaded with cargo trucks, cows and sea-sick passengers. Travelling on the first trip of the high season meant that the boat was only a third full. Which was exc...

 

London 1995

After a night in the upstairs room of a pub with an Australian girl called Corrina and a bottle of tequila I am smitten. She leaves a few days later to work in a pub in the Gambia. I book a ticket and fly back to Africa for the first time since leaving...

 

Inca42

Ok so I haven't written an update for quite a long time so I've forgotten a lot of the details of what's happened. Nonetheless I will try to give a brief overview of what I've done in the last couple of months. The last entry covered up until I arri...

 

Don't slam the door behind you on the way out....

The original plan was to spend xmas in Koh Pha-Ngan for the full-moon parties - but the forecast wasn't good, so we headed off Krabbi with the intention of going to Koh Phi Phi (aka "The Beach"). We stopped off in Krabbi (which was really nic...

 

Peru

After the first bus trip of our travels passed uneventfully we arrived in Ica. It was hectic and we took the first hostel we arrived at. At about $6 a night we couldn't complain but on first impressions I was not impressed. We decided food and alco...

 

Southern Hemisphere Safari

Came down to Floriano for a weeks relaxation on the beatiful brazilian beaches! Checked into the only hostel recommended in the "book" to find we were in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of hippies in a room stinking of damp with no money! ...

 

A Short History of Toilets in South American

Villa de Leiva proved well worth the 4.5 hour bus ride to and from Bogota. This picturesque hilltop 16th-century village was declared a National Monument in 1954, so any furhter development on the 400 year old site must be carried out in the colonial ...

 

Back in Peru

5 July 07 Beautiful, Chilled Out Huaraz! Today has been a good one. After a really lazy morning watching TV in bed ... (yes, I know that is really bad but we haven´t had a TV for absolutely ages, especially one with English channels so it was ...