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Huaraz Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Huaraz, Peru
A quick update
This is a top pick! ... valleys, and a bull attacking a guide going in the other direction. IŽll post a more detailed account of the last week or so tomorrow from Lima. IŽm taking an 8-hour night bus from Huaraz to Lima, then IŽm going to Cuzco on Saturday. More ...
Getting ready for a trek
This is a top pick! ... fine, if not a little odd – and then went back to the hostel to pack. I’m not too sure that we gave Huaraz as a place too much attention, and to be honest it didn’t look like it needed any. As a staging area for some ...
The hiking Mecca of Cordillera Blanca
This is a top pick! ... over 20 snow-capped peaks over 5000 meters, of which the most notable is Huascaran (6,768m), the highest mountain in Peru." And its true :) We spent a few days in Huaraz just chilling (yes we do seem to do rather alot of that)but it was hard to do ...
Acclimatising again
This is a top pick! Arrived here about 6am this morning ready to embark on reacclimatise again having sacrificed our height going to Lima. Town is pretty small and not a lot to see but the views are stupendous of the mountains around covered in snow. We eventually found ...
Cloud touching: a lesson in high altitude living
This is a top pick! ... mud?? It was PeruŽs Independence Day which meant it took us two extra days to reach our destination of Huaraz as all the buses were full, but this is Peru and whilst waiting for a bus we wandered around the vast ruins of an ancient mud brick city, ...
Travel plans made, kind of...
This is a top pick! So I have kind of been thinking a bit the last few months. Should I just stay down here in South America until Christmas, or should I try to make my way to New Zealand and/or South-East Asia? It's the one positive (or negative, depending on how you look ...
Back to the City of the Snowcapped Peaks
This is a top pick! Back to Huaraz... I needed a break from the big city so I decided to come back to Huaraz with two guys I became great friends with at the hostel in Lima. Ben and Leon are two crazy Brits that came to Lima for a day and ended up staying for 10 ... thanks ...
The City of the Snowcapped Peaks
This is a top pick! ... usually 10. Fortunately, the buses here are the big luxury coaches and nothing like the "chicken bus" experience through Central America. Huaraz is situated in the 2nd highest mountain range in the world and is surrounded by 22,000 foot snow-capped peaks ...
Mancora, Huanchaco, Huaraz
This is a top pick! ... to us apologizing for the uncomfortable conditions on the bus and their fellow countryman's dishonest behaviour. A visit to the Andes Huaraz is a town in a stunning location amongst the snow capped peaks of the Andes. This part of the Andes is ...
Happy to Find a Little Bit of Home
This is a top pick! ... a bus to the town of Chavin, located adjacent to the ruins of Chavin de Huantar. The bus ride between Chavin and Huaraz is pretty spectacular, even though the clouds prevented us from seeing the whole white-capped landscape. The road between the two ...
Now weŽre movinŽ
This is a top pick! ... bloody dog, vicious combo of the very suspect burger I ate before getting on the bus, no sleep, and the 3000+ metre altitude of Huaraz, our current location. Ah hah, so its not all fun and games they think! Well, I slept for 23 hours straight, literally, ...
Huaraz - Day 98
This is a top pick! Arrived in Huaraz at 6am and was approached by several guys offering hostels and treks. At this point I just wanted to get my head down for a proper sleep after being completely frozen on the bus for most of the 9 hour journey. Must be close to freezing ...
Trekking in the Corillera Blanca
This is a top pick! ... be good enough for basic communication. With his wide smile and chiselled features, Juan looks a bit like a Peruvian William Defoe. Day 1: Huaraz to Cashapampa to Llamacoral We get up at 6am and eat breakfast in the hostel. By 6.30am we are in a ...
smashing times at chav ruins and hot brown pools
This is a top pick! ... years later. All the tunnels were designed with natural air conditioning which means no musty smell. . We left Huaraz the next evening, on an 8 hour overnight bus to the capital city, Lima. The most entertaining part of ...
Hiking in the Cordillera Blanca
This is a top pick! ... , and there have been many devastating tragedies in the last century. In 1941 an avalanche and resulting flood above Huaraz destroyed half the city and killed about 5,000 inhabitants. Another huge avalanche in 1962 completely destroyed the small town of ...
Huaraz
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Huaraz in our entry from Lima, Peru entitled 'Darkest Peru'. Cheers, K & ...
Second highest mountain range in the world!
This is a top pick! ... The butchers overcooked the meat so bad that it was pretty much impossible to chew. After paying $5 (which is a fortune in Peru) and waiting 5 hours I only had one bite of meat. Everyone ended up giving their meat to the dogs that ...
Men in Tights
This is a top pick! ... out to be great and so comfy for sleeping so we took it in turns to sleep the night away to Lima. What I Learned * I can handle altitude * It is funny (and possible) to kiss a man wearing tights * Huaraz might be dirty, but it has beautiful ...
Snow-capped peaks and glaciar lakes!
This is a top pick! ... , the scenery changed again and we came across lush green valleys, snow-capped peaks and very bumpy roads! We arrived in Huaraz late afternoon, found a cheap & cheerful hostel and decided to frequent a pizza place named after Pep...Pep's Pizza place! You ...
Santa Cruz Trek - Final day
... our stuff, we got into a taxi and buzzed off back down the mountain, changing to local rammed collectivo at Caraz, and back to Huaraz for 2pm. It was possibly the best shower weŽve ever had after four days of grime build-up!! That night ...
Have No Words!
After my last blog entry, I received this very touching email from a special friend of mine...Thank you Dan!!! Mucho amor my friend!!! Subject: Have no words! all the new and fun and scary things you have been up to! Am sitting in a big stupid black ...
Semana Santa
What a great first day in Huaraz! First of all I want to thank Manuel for urging me to come to Peru and whose family I am staying with while I am here. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I am sure this will be an experience I will never ...
Some more trekking
... awake and wanting to relieve us of our money, and we found our way to a hostel. Slept unitl a reasonable time before hitting up Huaraz. Spoke to the tour agency in the hostel and decided to do the 4 day santa cruz trek in nearby Parque Nacional Huascaran. ...
The short march up and the long march down
We woke with a contrast to yesterdays low cloud to bright sunshine and we all packed for what we thought was going to be warm day of trekking. We set off at a similar time to yesterday and made a steady climb up the valley into a ...
sunny huaraz
... get on and off in a attempt to sell me and ad anything from corn on the cob to newspapers to sunglasses. once we arrived in huaraz we suddenly felt the altitude abit as walking up the hill gave us a good headache, the town is at over 10,000 ft. the ...
Day 22 - Trying to make arrangements
dWe were faced with a choice first thing this morning. Which hotel do we stay at tonight? Marie barely slept last night; when she woke, there was a Marie-shaped indent in the bed. Also, trying not to point fingers, the smell in the bathroom is just too ...
Aufwaerts
... hingehen koennen. Unterschiedliche Aussagen. Wir kaufen Futter und gehen los zu einigen Ruinen mit einer fadenscheinigen Karte. Es geht aus Huaraz raus an einem Fluss entlang, der fast komplett zu ist mit Muell. Weiter oben waschen sie Waesche. Dann eine ...
First Snow Sighting!
... problems that no one had attempted and I felt great and was climbing really well. We hiked all throughout the hills around Huaraz finding random boulders and joking around. It was really great. That night Katie and I were headed to Lima ...