Country Info
- Lima
- Capital
- Nuevo Sol (PEN)
- Currency
- 27,483,864
- Population
- PE
- Country Code
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Peru
Travel Blogs from Peru
Reality
I came to an absolutely horrifying realization for a woman of 29. I can count the number of times I had sex in 2011 on my fingers and just barely exceeding on one hand! Is this why it is the social norm to be married or in a serious ...
moving on up
... to lima, they immeadiately took us in and treated us like family, cooking us traditional peruvian food, giving us advice on routes around peru and ecuador, and giving us a great, commfy place to stay. But the truth is that we need to get moving, look ...
Old and Cold in the Andes
Short of sleepwalking into the thick of a rugby game, how do you pull a muscle in your rib area without realising it? This was the question consuming me as I squelched through calf-deep mud, in the rain, on day 3 of our Andean trek, wishing I ...
The Inca Trail
We were picked up bright and early and spent a few hours on a bus with our fellow trekkers on the way to km 82 and the start of the Inca trail. At the start of the trail we purchased some further trek essentials including walking sticks, a ridiculous hat ...
Lima, the cloudy city
... even then there was only 1 ticket. After a bit of panic, we got a taxi to another bus station (weird fact about Peru, they don't have central bus stations, instead each bus company has its own bus terminal, often nowhere near other ones, annoying) where ...
Chan Chan & Huanchaco
Huanchaco has given us our first glimpse of summer weather since Brazil, happy days :D We were staying in the La Casa Suiza which is about 2 minutes walk from the beach. Again, another nice wee hostel, which also did good pizzas in their restaurant. On ...
Nazca
Scho wieder so frueh ufstah!!! Im Moment han ich gar kei Ferie... bin grad chli reise-mued. Huet bin ich am 04.30 as Busterminal und daenn im Bus bis 15.30h. Momentan han ichs Busfahre chli satt, isch chli viel gsi i de letschte Taeg. Zviel Geholper, ...
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 ...
Lady of the Lake
We arrived in Puno in the late afternoon and booked our 2 day tour to the islands of Lake Titicaca. We went out for supper in the evening and settled for an early night. At 7.40 the next morning we were picked up and taken to the port ...