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Huaraz Slideshow
Huaraz
Travel Blogs from Huaraz, Peru
Huaraz
... $15. Beautiful views of the glacier capped mountains of the Cordillera Blanca. Definitely the gringo spot. Do a 1 day hike around Huaraz. Excellent! But, only because we got lost. Walk toward ruins on hill overlooking Huaraz, turn off dirt road too ...
Self actualisation through wilderness experiences
... the trek to us had advised us to shell out for this trek and against the lure of a number of cheaper trekking outfits in Huaraz who offered the entire 10 day trek for rock bottom prices. They warned about shoddy equipment, leaky tents, bad food, ...
Santa Cruz Canyon
... day of Cashapampa at llamacorral, this place found in the callejon de Huaylas in the north side of Huaraz. We passing the differents districts such as: Carhuas (2650m), Yungay (2500m) we walking 2 or ...
Huancha-Huishca-Rurec
The first day is only acclimated if you wanna explore this landscapes come to Huaraz, a fantastic and unique experience in the life. This day we walked in the middle to the rocks, with a sender cl.outs to the Shapes with the llamas and ...
Santa Cruz - Day Five - 4550m
... paid after agreeing that we didn´t need to! Travellers Tips * Laguna 69 is a great day walk you can easily do unguided from Huaraz (lots of people on a reasonably well marked trail, get a map if poss tho). Other great day hike (apparently) is the ...
whoops - where are the ruins?
... where we go, Latinos are celebrating something! There seems to be an endless array of saints to celebrate - lucky latinos! Peru has always pleasantly surprised us for the frequency of saint this , saint that, festivals and its colourful culture and ...
Huaraz, verslag Llanganuca trekking, Peru
... o.a. de aartsmoeilijke Huascaràn, 6768, hoogste van Peru), meerdaagse trekkingen, en veel meer. En ook de rest van Huaraz is hierop ingesteld: gespecialiseerde winkels (idd, de Tatoo...), verhuur van al het denkbare materiaal (behalve een ...
Touching the void
How cold is it? Still, at least I've got a toilet with a seat on it for the 1st time in South America! I just need to eat something dodgy so I can make the most of it! Today I went to 'Chavin de Huantar', a stone temple complex that was the centre ...
My beautiful Santa Cruz Trek through the Andes
HUARAZ: I just got back from the most spectacular 4 day hike through the Andes and I am so tired and worse than that... I am SMELLY!!! We camped every night in the mountains- so that meant no showers... and the long hikes meant sweaty and stinky ...
Huaraz
... 's highest point and Huascaran (the picture in the Paramount Pictures logo) are in this region and it is not surprising that Huaraz is the Andean adventure capital. After a rather uneventful bus trip from Lima (the bus was a huge improvement on Bolivia), ...
The trekking to the San Lorenzo island
The first day to the camping in San Lorenzo island we goes in a sailboat to the Palomino islands to saw the sea lions, was a nice experience on the sea, the people been so exciting when the water wet us. The sea lions are animals very lovelies, ...
Santa Cruz Trek
... ." It's an autobiography of an eccentric English climber who has no legs. Jemma flicks through the section on Huaraz and finds paragraphs referring to Pepe underlined! During our quite pleasant pizza, Pepe himself shuffles across and introduces ...
Trekking in the Andes
... 15 people but in ours there was 23 people... all adults... its fuckin crazy. They just squeeze everyone and their baggage in. Back in Huaraz then i showered and packed up grabbed dinner and got a lift then to the bus station to take an over night bus to ...
Day 23 - Hiking at Elevation
... pass us on the way down, but he beat us into town. I thought we had a tough day. After filling out a survey on tourism in Huaraz (all in Spanish!!), we were treated to one of our favourite meals so far. For $3 each, we had a fantastic chicken set menu at ...
trek de santa cruz
tout commence par un superm sketch peruvien, un classique... nous croyons voir arriver notre bus 30 min apres lheure prevus... on le charge a bloc, on croit mettre notre sac mais en fait cest pas le bon!!!! on attend encore un peu et le voila... ...
To Huaraz
... Blanca. A constant procession of beautiful, snow capped mountains roll past our window. After an eight hour journey, we pull into Huaraz and wrestle our bags free from the coach's hold. A metal door in the bus station opens and we are assaulted by a ...
High altitude trekking
... than enough at this altitude. We spent the day climbing, surrounded by ice fields and frozen lakes and returned to Huaraz, absolutely exhausted. Tomorrow I am heading south, towards Cuzco, leaving Liza and team Israel and finally reaching the one city I ...
How much further?
... chilled out for the rest of the day at the hostel, watching movies, uploading our pictures drinking. It was a nice relaxing day Huaraz was a more rugged city with loads of buildings half built and terrible roads with massive pot holes, but it still was ...
Huaraz, Carhuaz, Yungay...and Lima again
... I left a few days after my last entry for the mountain leg (at least the ankle) of my journey in Peru. I took a night bus to Huaraz, which is recommended because the road goes more or less straight up the mountain, and it´s better in the dark ...
Santa Cruz Trek
... too thick to understand thier own language." He wasn't here for the cultural experience. I met him on a number of occasions afterwards in Huaraz where he came out with many more gems and pearls of wisdom not the least of which was his plan to get some of ...
Climbing in the Cordillera Blanca - part 4
... . Stay another night at High Camp...snow in the evening. July 14, 2011: Come down the mountain through Collon. Arrive in Huaraz at 4pm. July 15, 2011: Rest and prepare for the next (and likely last) outing in the Cordillera Blanca: ...
Hiking in the Cordillera Blanca
We spend 3 weeks in Huaraz, a town in the Cordillera Blanca which is a beautiful part of the Andes with many snow covered peaks. Brian went on 2 hikes, a 4 day hike in the Santa Cruz Valley. He finished it in 2 days, mostly because he consumed too much ...
Loving Peru
... in Piura at 5.30am. Took bus to Chiclayo, then another to Trujillo and another to Chimbote. This to catch a night bus to Huaraz. Unfortunately there were no buses to Huaraz in the daytime so some breathtaking scenery was slept through. Met up with a ...
Huaraz
Huaraz. Mountains. Hiked Laguna 69-see photos. High 4700m - bad headaches. Chilled, street festivals etc. (Peruvian day of independance) Mountain biking - see photos Hatun Machay - rock climbing, high again - 4700m, small earthquake - thought ...
Llanganuco
Today's plan is to see Llanganuco, mountain lakes that we would have seen at the very end of our trek. We don't enjoy the best of starts as in the morning Jemma falls down the stairs of our hostel. We get a minivan to Yunguy for three sols each. I ...
Una aventura en La Cordillera Blanca
... más alto al amanecer, y ver dos lagunas preciosas. Agotados por la caminata del día anterior pensamos en volver a Huaraz temprano y saltarnos la caminata a otra laguna cerca de allí. Agarramos un taxi en el camino y nos enteramos que la ...
altitude solves all life´s problems
so we are back from a 4 day trek in the andes and have discovered that altitude is the key to life. 1. you aren´t very hungry so you don´t eat a lot 2. everything you do is 5x more work so everything becomes exercise 3. you get drunk way faster 4. ...
The good, the bad...and the ugly too
i was very excited to travel to huaraz...dad had lived there for a year, and there was talked-up rock there to be explored. too bad i came down with altitude sickness, a cold, and finally food poisoning. i managed one day of climbing, josh two. i think i ...
Slice of heaven at Casa de Charlie
... for good measure. Hiking is the main reason people come to this region and the Lonely Planet guide devotes an entire chapter to Huaraz and the Cordilleras. This is the highest mountain range outside of the Himalayas and the region has 22 summits, some of ...