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La Merced Slideshow
Travel Blogs from La Merced, Peru
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Exploring the Central Sierra
This is a top pick! "Hey, I want to rent your motorcycle." This is kinda' the summary of my week long foray into the Central Sierra; a region of mild weather and numerous laid back towns and villages among cloud forest and other pre-jungle flora. The weird thing ...
Lick The Windows
This is a top pick! After having the near mugging I got on the overnight bus to Tingo Maria. I was still in a strange mood and was telling anyone that looked in my direction about what had just happened. They were all very nice about it, being really concerned. The guy that ...
Unexpected Return from the Huayhuash
Unfortunately Leslie and I had to return from our trek in the Huayhuash. Leslie sustained an extremely painful bruise on the rear of her heel just below the achilles tendon. Currently this bruise has swollen to the size of a golfball which makes it ...
Jane of the Jungle
... the grass and sheep dung, and they only go into the ¨city¨ to trade sheep meat for vegetables and oil. From La Merced we drove to a small town for lunch, where we transferred everything we would need for our jungle stay, including ourselves, ...
The Indiginous Community Of The Ashaninka Indians
... its passengers in the mornings; so you may as well book it through the cheapest agent - which is Chanchamayo Travel. Accommodation La Merced offered very little decent budget accommodation. I opted to stay at Hospedaje Villa Dorada, Jr. Julio Pirola 265, ...
Huaruchiri, Los Andes
... Grupo Gea were exploring the possibility of raising awarenes of the Camino Inca (Inca Trail) in some of the most deprived parts of Peru. The Camino Inca runs from Quito in Ecuador as far as Argentina and the part west of Lima is particularly pretty and ...
Cooling Off In The Waterfalls Of Catarata El Tirol
... off at all the travel agents to pick up its passengers; so you may as well book it through the cheapest agent. Accommodation La Merced offered very little decent budget accommodation. I opted to stay at Hospedaje Villa Dorada, Jr. Julio Pirola 265, Tel: ...
Canyoning in Gorgonia
... flussaufwärts. Klettern, kraxeln und an Seilen kleine Wasserfälle heraufhangeln - das Ganze war anstrengend, nass und kurzum eine RIESENGAUDI! Am Abend kehrten wir hundemüde nach La Merced zurück. Anbei die schönsten Bilder vom ...
La Merced
Nach Oxapampa, starken Regen und einer holprigen Fahrt ueber Schlammpisten, bin ich jetzt im subtropischen "La Merced" angekommen. Das ueppige Gruen laesst mein Herz erbluehen. Nach wochenlanger Trockenheit der Wueste, ist es eine echte Erfrischung, die ...
ok, found a bit of time!
... hugs. I want a pet monkey now!!! It was really fun, this weekend. Sophie and caught an overnight bus for 7 hours to La Merced where Natalia (her host sister) directed us to her university´s lodge way up in the mountains above the city. Her ...
High Amazonian jungle
... 't have to perform for the trees and shrubs benefit. One last visit - a hilltop view of the town, river and mountains of La Merced - very different and enhanced by twinkling twilight, Back to the hotel and an early night. I had a headache after such ...
Exploring life in La Selva Central
... to go out in the jungle already the same afternoon. Driving over the Andes to reach the coffee area in La Selva Central (central jungle of Peru) we reached 4800 meters above sea level. Bad luck comes in threes, starting with experiencing a small collision ...
Changes
... decided to change my plans and head back to the Gringo trail, to Cusco. I can still visit the jungle in Bolivia. The trip to La Merced it itself was worth it anyway : from Lima, sea level, to high andes to peruvian altiplanos, to jungle-covered sharp low ...
Oxapampa - Geocentric City of Peru
Oxapampa is the town where my friend lives and it is our base for almost half of my trip. It is the Geocentric City of Peru that means that is the exact center of the whole country. I didn't know that until I came here and as soon as I understood that it ...
The lines
Stopped off an did some sandboarding on the way to Nazca - was great fun being driven around huge sand dunes in a 9 seater buggy - sorry Michael I´ve actually been in a buggy now and it wasn´t yours!! - then we´d stop at the top of a dune and ...
Nazca lines, a cemetary and a car chase
All in 8 hours...yep we got off the overnight bus from Arequipa in Nazca at 0630 and got ready to see the lines...It was all very confusing but we made on some flights, we were on different flights but that was ok. The planes are very small and seat 6, ...
A couple of days in Pozuzo
Pozuzo is the unique colony of Austrian-Germans founded in 1859 in "Selva Central" in the region of Pasco. The trip from Oxapampa to Pozuzo is in a "nice" road once here the measures of secure roads are inexistent (imagine almost 80 km in more than 2 ...
Kleine Naturkunde im Jardín de Mariposas
... Samstag morgen ging es mit dem Mototaxi zu einer kurzen Visite in den "Jardín de Mariposas" in der Nähe von La Merced. Da es sehr beeindruckende Bilder von dieser Visite gibt, ein kleiner eigener Blogentry dazu. Der Jardín de Mariposas ist ...
The Jungle Blog
... geographical hat-trick purposes. To say that the first sign of the jungle took my breath away would probably have you believe that Peru has transformed and melted the Thomas you knew into an emotional and gushing romantic. But do not fear for that would ...
La Merced and the Chancamayo Valley
Today has been the most random day of my trip so far, it was just jammed pack with the funniest stuff, how it all happened in one day is beyond me. I´m currently in the Peruvian jungle, I arrived last night and go back to Huancayo in the morning so ...
Back to work
After some days of relax it was time to go back to the fields just to keep an eye on them! Always new things to see and learn. :-) Nothing special, just seize the ...
POZUZO Y CODO DE POZUZO ARE BEATIFULL
I use to travel very often to Pozuzo and Codo (like we call), my family live there, and i can say Pozuzo is realy nice, there are a lot of things to do : culture, adventure....birds, cattle ranchs, and delicious food (fusion peruvian-german). ...
The rainforest at last
... . We stopped in a café and again dad had one of his feelings where he thinks someone doesn’t like him, we had a walk around La Merced and booked a tour for tomorrow. We then got a taxi back to San Ramon and got something to eat there, then we got a ...
Un petit week-end dans la selva alta (haute)
... ;! Le lendemain, avant la pluie, on est allés à la cascade de Bayoz avec toute la clique de woofeurs et départ pour La Merced. Coucher comme des poules mais lever… à midi !! Ça fait du bien de recharger les batteries ! Visite d´une ...
A day around Oxapampa!
A day around Oxapampa visiting different places such as a "Trapiche" (it could be translated something like a "windmill"), "Tunqui" cave, Margarita's house, and other places! Just enjoy some of the pictures that I made... :-) ...
Traumreise durch verschiedene Welten
... (wieder ohne Klo, dieses mal auch ohne Käfer, aber mit Papagei an Bord) auf uns. Die Fahrt führte von La Merced durch den Hochlanddschungel hinauf in die Berge, durch das wunderschöne kleine Bergdorf Tarma auf 3050m, über die dreckige Hauptstadt ...
Tarzan escapes the jungle fun
... . Strange how they don´t want to be photographed. The weather was warm and the jungle steamy though. 90 minutes back to La Merced, lunch and then a negociation process for a private car back to Huancayo. A shortish white-knuckle ride courtesy of Michael ...
Jul 30, 2009
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