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Huaraz Slideshow
Huaraz
Travel Blogs from Huaraz, Peru
Riding on a thread
After a couple of days of resting and walking around the city of Huaraz, enjoying its many restaurants shops and bars, we loaded the bikes and headed to the north, trying to find the natural saunas and baths that our guidebook talks ...
schedule schmmmedule - ooo a mountain!
... soon! I bought some generic gringo trousers (like Timmy´s but way way more homosexual). We had already booked our bus north to Huaraz (google it, mountains look ridiculous!) albeit a day late, for 22:00 so we bid farewell to the various cool people we ...
Huaraz, The Cordillera Blanca
As if hours in Caracas Airport didn´t leave us satisfied, Brig and I are now chilling in Lima Airport, waiting for our flight to Cuzco which will hopefully save us a very long and bumpy cross country night/day bus. Its not so bad: there´s a starbucks. ...
Rataquenua !
... trabacha: Nachdem Willcawain gestern in der Pampa verschollen blieb, haben wir heut wenigstens Rataquena gefunden... 300m ueber Huaraz und H. musste gleich mal wegen Kopfweh abhaengen! Alle haben uns gewarnt, heute waer s total gefahehrlich wegen der ...
Trekking in Andes
So we set of early (6am) on friday morning to the start point of are epic trek. There were 3 others joining are joyess trek, a swiss couple called Grerg and Simone and a Californian called Josh. Leading the trek was are guide David. ...
Lodgetastic Andean Hiking in Peru
... we arrived back in the mountains which was a relief as we got bitten to death on the coast by the mosquitoes. On arriving in Huaraz we picked the funnest sounding hostel and feeling a bit homesick went for Joe's place which is quoted as serving bacon and ...
Huaraz et la Cordilliere Blanche
Huaraz est la mecque du treking et mountainering au Perou. Nous y resterons 2 ou 3 jours, le temps de nous acclimater a l'altitude et de preparer notre trek, que nous decidons de faire sans guide.... Location de tout le matos pour pas grand chose (14$/j ...
Second Highest Mountain Group Behind the Himalayas
... We took a bus at 6:00 am to Huaraz and got in around 3 pm. The bus ride was pretty simply and very scenic. Huaraz is basically a mecca for hard core adventures. Multi day rock climbing, ice climbing and mountain climbing trips. We checked into our hostel ...
laguna 69, Ice climbing, huayhuash
... ' - a ridge of snowy mountains, that concentrate various attractions such as treks, rafting, climbing, ice-climbing, etc. one problem - Huaraz is 3,091m high, and it is necessary to climate to the thin air in order to function well. LAGUNA 69 they ...
Glaciers, ice climbing and Peru´s Fawlty Towers
... eucalyptus and aloe with snow capped peaks in the background and even after 2hours of meandering upwards climbing, the sight of Huaraz was inescapably still present beneath us until we passed over the summit. We spent most of the day then on the ...
Andes Mountains from Huaraz
... because the walk up to Lake 69 was amazing! We were very lucky because it’s usually cloudy and the highest mountain in Peru (and the second hightest in South America) [Mountain’s name] which stands at 6768m above sea level is hidden away. It ...
Day trips from Huaraz
... it was quite a sight, we were all glad to get back on the bus... Brrrrrr. There are so many good eateries in Huaraz, I was spoilt for choice - great wood-oven pizza, succulent steak, tasty pasta and crepes made by an actual Frenchman! Next ...
Day 1 in Huaraz
Nathan and I are spending a minute in Huaraz taking it easy and making sure we acclimatize okay. Sorroche (altitude sickness) is no joke, and we want to make sure we´re in good shape for our upcoming treks. I can´t say enough about this little town, ...
Huaraz: Puppies and Ruins
... all tour agencies close between 11 and 3, there is good Chinese food for $1.50, the surrounding mountains are beautiful and that Huaraz has adorable puppies in the pet stores (my favorite were two black shar-pei puppies that looked like they were trying ...
las ruinas de Willchahuain
... ns ns equipons dun sifflet de trois batons, dun couteau mais... pas d echien! ouf puis noous redescendons en combi (bus local) pour huaraz et direction une source deau chaude situe a monterrey la couleur de leau nest pas tres appetissante, ñais ce jaune ...
Fresh Air and Good Company
... feeds I have had and for, $2.50 it cannot be beat! Honestly the last few days here have revolved around a lot of mooching in Huaraz, laxing playing cards and dice, a lot of beer and vino and generally doing nothing and we have loved it! I am so relaxed ...
Land of the llamas and Paddington Bear
... up on some warm clothes for the mountains and sampling a bit of the local nightlife before catching a bus eight hours north to Huaraz, a town in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range, part of the Andes. Huaraz sits at a lofty altitude of 3,090 meters, so ...
Santa Cruz Trek
... decided that I would push on with them and Andy would make his way back to the trail head and grab a combi back to Huaraz. I was a little hesitant to leave him but he had more outdoors experience than I and was confident he would have no ...
Recovery....and on our way to Arequipa
After returning from our lengthy trek in Santa Cruz, we spent most of the day doing laundry in the sink (our clothes) and washing all the strange insects out of our tent )in the bathtub.) I got to dry our clothes the old fashioned way (aka the only way ...
Huaraz
... at 5:30am! We find a hostel, wake the landlady, get a room and have a quick kip before the day properly begins! Huaraz is completely different to the previous places we´ve visited in Peru as we´re now at 3100m above sealevel and amongst the Andes, ...
Out of the Fog and into the Snow
... have a secret death wish, making the journey to the trail an adventure in itself. I arrived in Huaraz to explore the possibility of doing a three or four day tour such as the Santa Cruz trek, but before that I had ...
In the Peruvian Andes
... oxygen... why?? And since the rule never fails, at the top of the climb was an amazing blue Laguna. Worth the panting. Huaraz is a really cute little town, and even though there are many tourist that come for the trekking, it feels very authentic and ...
En route to Huaraz
... the speed of ours (cruz del sur has a pretty good safety record), which was frightening, but made for gorgeous views. Huaraz itself has been destroyed completely something like 4 times in the past century by various natural disasters. They just keep ...
This is a top pick! 
trek 3
ben glagla pour cette nuit entre lancienne annee et la nvelle annee... sylvain sest caille les miches, mais moi ds mon gros duvet de yeti jai dormi comme un bebe, on se leve et on sapercoit que la tente est gelee... heureusement que ce nest pas une ...
In Huaraz
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Happy Halloween
Halloween is as good an excuse as any to get a little crazy. Went to the market for costume supplies and back to the hostal to prepare for a night out. Found Katie wandering around town and she joined the group from Albergue Churup for a fun ...
Huaraz - trekking and lots of rain
Peru 3 of 3, Huaraz, a small town nearby two of Peru's most spectacular mountain ranges, the Black range and the White range (Cordillera Blanca and Cordillera Negra (?)). The Cordillera Blanca alone has 50 peaks of over 5700mThere is a popular trek which ...