Category: South America
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Our last blog for South America – Ecuador
In Peru Matt and I started to regret having already booked our ticket out of South America from Quito for the 13th. We were feeling like it would be a good idea to leave for Canada around the 1st and go and get a place sorted in Revelstoke, find a car and do all that…
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Beach time at Mancora Peru
We arrived in Lima the afternoon we left Nasca and headed to one of the oldest hotels in the city that has been maintained nicely. It was a bit of a step up from the hostals we’ve been staying at. It’s this point in the trip where we just felt like a bit of luxury!…
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Nasca and the Nasca Lines
Our aim was to head to the North Coast of Peru to get some beach time, and along the way was the famous Nasca where they found the Nasca lines of the ancient people after many years. We took an overnight bus from Arequipa and arrived in Nasca about 8am in the morning, so we…
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Arequipa and a trek in the Colca Canyon
From Cusco we took an overight bus to Arequipa in the South. From here we could do a trek to explore the Colca Canyon region. In parts the Canyon is 4,160m deep which is twice the depth of the grand canyon. We looked around Arequipa for a day and then organised a 3 day tour…
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Cusco and the evil Inca Trail
So another 8 hours on the bus to Cusco. Cusco was a really cool city. All the towns and cities we’ve been to in South America have a plaza (square) which is the main feature of town. Directions are given in relation to plazas (a lot are called Plaza San Fransisco, San Fransisco is big…
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Heading to Peru via Lake Titicaca – Copacabana & Puno
We had to head up to Peru to meet the girls in Cusco so we decided to take a route along Lake Titicaca via Copacabana in Bolivia, then across the border into Puno, Peru. Then from Puno we would head straight to Cusco. Copacabana was a nice little town on the lake, we stayed here…
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Irupana via the scariest bus trip of our lives
Fritz and Kathy are a couple we met at the convention in Sao Paulo Brazil. When they heard we were coming up tot Bolivia they invited us to go stay with them and see how they live in Irupana in the Yungas in Bolivia. They were originally from the USA and have 3 grown children…
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Tarzan and Jane in the jungle Bolivia style
Matt is the research man of the trip and is doing an absolutely fantastic job! While we really wanted to go to the Pantanal in Brazil it turned out that it was almost impossible to book online and was also very expensive. So we opted to do the Amazon jungle and a Pampas trip instead…
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La Paz and the Death Road
Another crazy bus ride to add to the list. This time it was an overnight bus from Uyuni to La Paz the capital. This was a 9 hour overnight bus ride and from what we could tell in our half asleep, half awake state, was that the road was dirt, bumpy, and when corners arrived…
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4WD trip from San Pedro to the Bolivian Salt Flats in Uyuni
From San Pedro we headed into Bolivia. We decided to take a 3 day tour across the altiplano in Bolivia. We were quite nervous about this trip as we could find only bad reviews. We searched the internet for good reviews but the harder we looked the more dodgy it seemed. We read stories of…