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Travel Blogs from Maria, Peru
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Lick The Windows
... a change, I felt that I deserved it. The sleep that I had in the morning was very very nice. I didn't actually come to Tingo Maria for any reason, rather it's just a stop off on my way to the Amazon. Therefore I didn't feel guilty just hanging around and ...
False Start
... lovely 4 hours of standing! For the last hour I got a seat and the view from my window looked very enticing, palm trees! Santa Maria is only 1,400 meters above sea level so it“s a bit more tropical that I“d been used to recently. Bring on the sun ...
Inka- Jungle- Trek: Mountainbiking
... 40 minutes our group was complete and everyone had to introduce him/herself: 3 lovely couples: Zuleima and Johnny from Arequipa/Peru, Maria and Juan from Spain Dominique and Simon from Switzerland Then there were 2 couples from Israel and Carlos from ...
Pierwsze semi-dzunglowe klimaty
Po calonocnej jezdzie autobusem dotarlismy (ja, Mila i Fernando) do Tingo Maria - miasteczka polozonego w dzungli po drugiej stronie And(ow?). Zamieszkalismy w hotelu, ktorego wlascicielami sa rodzice Fernando wiec nie placilismy za pokoj czyli moglismy ...
Downhill on a bike from 4300 meters at Abra Malaga
... in the ditch to damage her head a bit. Luckily I have the biking in my DNA ;) After we all got in the car we went to Santa Maria, where we got at our hostel and all got changed and had out lunch. After lunch around 15:00 we decided to have a beer. After a ...
Day One of the Inca Jungle Trek
... be over the next couple of days. She ended up looking positively skanky! Eventually, we ended up in a place called Santa Maria where our head guide, Herber, provided us with superb food, cold beer and excellent lodgings - there was even running water in ...
Kuelap
... north americans decided to visit Kuelap independently. A combi was found heading to Tingo and off we went. A taxi up to Maria and accommodation is found for 10 soles ($3) a night. Laura fights with local children, we all join in a game ...
I thought it was warm in South America
... of waterfalls coming down the mountains. We drove down and met up with the bikers, and then headed to a late lunch in Santa Maria – the first town on our trek. Our hostel was super basic which meant that we had a communal bathroom (hello, college ...
3000 Meter in die Tiefe
... an den Moskitos die sich plötzlich bemerkbar machten. Von unserer 14-köpfigen Gruppe sind, ausser einem kleinen Sturz und einem defekten Fahrrad alle heil in Santa Maria angekommen, wo wir den Nachmittag mit Karten- und anderen Spielen ...
Inka Jungle - Day 1 - Mountain Biking
The Inka Jungle trip is a great alternative to the real Inka Trail. Apart from the fact that we hadn“t booked in advance and couldn“t do the Inka Trail anyway, we preferred this option. It was half the price, you only needed to ...
Tingo Maria National Park
Saturday June 9th, walks near Tingo Maria We will tell you what we did, rather than what we were told we could do (which was usually wrong). First, the only maps of the national park that we could find were at the entrance to Cueva de Lechuzas and at the ...
Hike from Santa Teresa to Santa Maria
... hike. Much better way than taking the train all the way back. That night we found a cheap hotel room in Santa Maria where a bike tour of Argentinians, Australians, and Frenchies were stopping on their way to the ruins. Princess introduced the ...
PERU:KUELAP:valentines day and lost cities
we should have realised that when we asked the taxi guide to be there for 6am...we actually meant 6.45! but we climb in and are driven through the valley, alongside the huge roaring river. we arrive in tingo mearly an hour later, which was ...
First Day Hiking
Day 2 Up early for breakfast (chocolate and banana pancake) then off treking the first part of the Inka trail. Spent 6 hours walking thought the basin of the Amazon jungle, up steep hills, along thin ledges with large drops below us, and across some ...
Indulging The Demons
It was pissing down with rain when I rocked up to Tingo Marķa just as it was getting light. Fail. After checking into Hostal Roosevelt, drying off and having a wee nap I located the tourist information centre and put my limited Spanish to work trying to ...
The Sleeping Beauty and her vagina
... journey has been just amazing. We left the 3000m views of Huaraz and reached the luxurious greens of the high jungle of Tingo Maria, located at about 660m above sea level. The amazingness of the journey apart for the breathtaking views was the fact that ...
Starting the Jungle trail to Macchu Picchu
... spring andf another hostel. I look forward to the hot springs, never been to one. They stay warm due top volcano“s? interesting to say the least. I have had hot showers everywhere so far even in this very small city, Santa Maria. People are so nice ...
Farmers for a day
As good farmers-for-a day, we rose early (ok, 7:00am is actually considered late as per "real" farmers) and we ate a energy packed healthy organic breakfast before jumping in the pick-up truck and drive to the hills. The hills are covered in lush and ...
4 hour descent
... abandoned railroad station. They explained that some landslides had taken out the train tracks that had passed through Santa Maria. Indeed the former station was now littered with cow dung and badly vandalized with graffiti. We were ...
Amazone
Stad in het begin vh Amazonewoud. Tropisch warmte overvalt ons meteen. Muggenbeten op m“n been vormen een dagenlange ...
Jungle Inca-trail: Mountain Biking
... shop. It is the best chocolate I have ever tasted (none of this nestle rubbish I’m having to put up with). Arrive at Santa Maria. We’re staying in a nice lodge, owned by the tour company and are the only people there. Our guides cook for us- ...
Making The Most Of Tingo Marķa
I was slowly dragged into consciousness and I lay curled up with my eyes closed as I willed myself to get my carcass out of bed, check out and do something with my day apart from pick mould out of my belly button and scratch my arse. As I opened my ...
Day 1: Inka Jungle Trek
We got picked up and met our fellow trekkers. At first, as is usually the case, everyone seemed really quiet and we thought this was a boring group but half an hour later everyone came out of there shell and started chatting. There was Davi from Sao ...
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