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We left for our Cañon del Colca tour on a crappy old bus chock-full of people from Peru, Chile, the US, Canada, Belgium and of course Australia. After numerous hours driving and a few stops, we crossed over a head pounding 4800m mountain pass into the Canyon. Along the way we stopped to have a...

permalink written by  Cath & Andy on April 16, 2007 from Chivay, Peru
from the travel blog: A journey to the alter and South America

Mummies and Monasteries

A day of cruising the streets of Arequipa and taking it all in. We started with a breakfast overlooking the Plaza and then headed for the Museo Santuarios Andines where they have a whole bunch of stuff recovered from girl sacrifices on the massive volcanoes surrounding Arequipa and throughout...

permalink written by  Cath & Andy on April 13, 2007 from Arequipa, Peru
from the travel blog: A journey to the alter and South America

Border crossing, the desert, and a breakdown

After a few relaxing days in Arica we decided to spice things up a little today... We planned on catching a bus across the border into Peru and up to Arequipa (sounds fairly simple) but when we got to the bus station early in the morning there were no buses and a lady hounding us to drive us...

permalink written by  Cath & Andy on April 12, 2007 from Arequipa, Peru
from the travel blog: A journey to the alter and South America

Vacation with the Family

After my classes and volunteering position in Cusco were ending my host family, along with my house mates, and I went to the beach. I am usually not much of a beach person but I was excited to see how a Peruvian family takes a vacation. We jumped onto a bus from Cusco to Arequipa at 8 pm. The...

permalink written by  Shawn04 on February 14, 2007 from Camana, Peru
from the travel blog: South American

My life in Cusco

Being that this is my last full weekend in Cusco I thought I would share some details of my daily life. Cusco is an amazing city, it is quite small which makes it easy to walk every place, and it is alive with history. Most days I get up at about 7 am. and review my spanish homework prior to my...

permalink written by  Shawn04 on February 3, 2007 from Cusco, Peru
from the travel blog: South American

Rafting on the Urubamba

On saturday Heidi, Leticia (my house mates), Dante (a teacher at the school) and I spent the day rafting the Urubamba river. There are several options, but we decided to do the one day trip. We met our group at 9:30 am in the main plaza in Cusco and took the bus 1 1/2 hours to the base camp....

permalink written by  Shawn04 on January 30, 2007 from Cusco, Peru
from the travel blog: South American

Sacsayhuaman

Located on a hill overlooking the city of Cusco are a string of ruins. The first is Sacsayhuaman which was the originall fortress of the city. During the Inca´s time the city of Cusco was layed out like the body of a puma with the fortress of Sacsayhuaman as the head. The site is pretty...

permalink written by  Shawn04 on January 30, 2007 from Cusco, Peru
from the travel blog: South American

Sacred Valley Tour

Located just outside of Cusco is the Sacred Valley, a beautiful valley that has been producing corn, potatoes, and many other foods for the Inca people and now the residents of Cusco and Peru. The majority of the people are poor farmers that make a living cultivating the land by hand and selling...

permalink written by  Shawn04 on January 25, 2007 from Pisac, Peru
from the travel blog: South American

Pisco, only for the wildlife

Erin, Jaime, and myself caught an early bus down the southern coast to Pisco. The entire coast of Peru is primarily a desert, nothing to see but chicken farms and sand. The view did not get much better once we arrived in Pisco. THe city is very poor and dirty. Our hostel was very nice, it had a...

permalink written by  Shawn04 on January 11, 2007 from Pisco, Peru
from the travel blog: South American

Pit stop in Lima

We had a quick stop in Lima on January 10th. Erin and I took a flight from Cusco to Lima to pick up my sister Jaime from the airport. Our hostel was located south of Lima about 15 minutes. Lima is very large compared to Cusco. Jaime did not arrive in Lima until 11:00 pm so Erin and I caught a...

permalink written by  Shawn04 on January 10, 2007 from Lima, Peru
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