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- Lima
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- Nuevo Sol (PEN)
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Pisco Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Pisco, Peru
pisco sours and ballestas islands
... was in the earthquake and said it was the most scary thing thats ever happened to her, she still seemed shaken up when we were walking around. Pisco is famous for where pisco sours are from so had a good one in the evening :D The next day we did a trip ...
Bird droppings & Mysterious Inca lines
From Lima we headed south down the coast to our next destination Pisco. The ride was good until a lady with her two year old daughter sat behind us and the stupid kid kept on screaming and crying. Now don't get me wrong I adore kids and have been more ...
Pisco, nase prvni poustni mesto
... anglicky. Takze jsme to vzali, bylo to i s anglicky mluvicim pruvodcem. Pisco neni uplne nejbezpecnejsi mesto, ale pry se to ted o dost zlepsilo. V asi 30 stupnich jsme vyrazili na plaz (pro jistotu ...
Mmmmm Fish Meal
... of birds... and some more birds.... and some Sea Lions and Penguins... some sand and some cool landscapes. After that we retreated to Pisco and drank some weird beer (that had bird turd on the bottle) and I tried Cerviche which is raw fish cured in lemon ...
Petit périple en amoureux
... îlot de verdure au milieu du désert qui borde Ica. Full of gringos mais chouette : surf sur le sable, dégustation de pisco (la boisson nationale faite à base de raisin), baignade, tour en 4*4 dans le désert (Ben ayant largement insisté, j´ai ...
Isla Ballestes
One of the top things on my list of things to do in Peru, was to go to Isla Ballestes. Well, we made it. Known as a poor man's Galapagos, it is a quick and easy way to see penguins and sea lions in the wild. It is a beautiful sight, and uninhabited ...
Huacachina, Oasis du désert
... sur is the other really good bus co., but they didn´t have any more room for our desired dates.) Upon arriving in Pisco, which is basically still rebuilding itself from last year´s earthquake, we walked halfway down the block to our hostal. We hooked ...
Pisco...SOUR
... more than some local guy with a Pinto driving around picking up random people. It was a 10 minute, very crammed ride to Pisco and I was pleasantly surprised when I arrived...it had a nice town square (Plaza de Armas...the name for every main plaza in ...
Dag schatten alleen maar effe een berichtje ...
Dag schatten, Alleen maar effe een berichtje dat we goed zijn beland hier, 2 dagen Lima hebben overleefd en nu op weg zijn naar de Nazcalijnen. We hebben nog niet veel bijzonders gezien, de hele kust is eigenlijk een grote woestijn. Pas na 3 uur ...
Mijn eerste dagen, so far so good!
... te tikken, omdat ik in een redelijk stoffig stadje zit waar geen klap te beleven is. De oorzaak hiervan is dat centrum van Pisco in 2007 redelijk met de grond is gelijk gemaakt agv een aardbeving. Een stoffige bouwplek, waar mij ten zeerste is afgeraden ...
we made it!
Hi everyone! We have arrived saffeely in Perru. finiccky coomputerr keys sorry. We are haqving an absolute fantastic timme! very Eye opening. NNno trooubles at all. Lovve our toourr only 2 otherr canadians. lotts to do lots to eat ...
April 5 - 13 Cusco, Pisco & Huacachina
... a tiny oasis town in the middle of the Ica desert just outside the city of Ica, about an hour down the coast from Pisco. Its a beautiful place, really touristy but there were as many Peruvian tourists there as there were gringos. We stayed in our hotel ...
Pisco, Peru - The rightful home of the Pisco Sour
... " pisco, but it was really the Peruvians! So never make that mistake if you get over this way, particularly in Peru. Pisco is another very colonial town of considerable historical and archaeological interest, with a lovely town square. Some of ...
Sandboarding and that
... an Oasis on the way back and stopped at a nice hotel to sample some seafood and have a swim. Our next stop was a Pisco winery where we learnt about the brewing process and how they develop the different varieties. Obviously the best bit was the sampling ...
pisccccco
... home a little less. now me and sarah are walking around exploring to leave france and his girlfriend to walk around by themselves. pisco's a really nice city, but it's obvious we're the only gringas here. can't wait for tomorrow...sand boarding and wine ...
Overnight Bus Arequipa - Nasca Lines - Dune Buggy
... set and then raced around the dunes a bit more. Afterwards, grabbed a taxi back to the bus terminal and then caught another bus to Pisco being dropped off on the Pan Am Highway and then another taxi to Pisco proper where we were going to spend the night. ...
Pizco and the island of poo
Pizco was a little seaside town a few hours down the coast from Lima. We arrived quite late in the evening to a beautiful sunset so we all walked down to the beach before dinner. The town was nothing how we as South Africans would imagine a sea side ...
Guano & Paracas
... muchos desertness around here, most dryness! - visit 'Cathedral Rock’ and spot some cool sea otters, then head back to Pisco. Time for a quick dump (much healthier!!). Taxi to the Pan –American Highway, then wait for 30 minutes on the ...
In Pisco
... . It's nice to have down time as we will be working hard when we start volunteering in a couple days. Also, Eva took some pics in Pisco. My blog is linked to hers if you'd like to see it. I didn't feel safe taking out my SLR and take photos so using ...
Volunteering in Pisco
... not going into Pisco itself as the roads are still not fixed and many are under construction. Pisco was about 70% destroyed in the earthquake that hit Peru in 2007... and it still looks like the earthquake happened yesterday. Sadly the government seem ...
Ballastas Islands
The ride to Ballastas Island was a rather uneventful one. I was still sick to my stomache and trying my darnest not to hurl on the bus ride to the jetty. Sebastian isn´t talking to me. Or rather, is behaving like my bad tummy & misery is something ...
The tour has begun.......
... Arrived in pisco this afternoon after a 4 hour bus trip - it's all so incredibly dry but I suppose the coast is a desert.......pisco still barely recovered from the earthquake a couple of years ago. There is some rebuilding but a lot that's not. Our ...
First stop of the intrepid tour
... day of the tour the group are really good, we went out in Pisco Last night as we had to sample the local speciality of Pisco Sour! Very nice would recomend it... Today was slightly harder to get up early to go to the Ballesteros Islands to see the ...
un techo para mi pais
... my friend rikardo is okay who lives there. i´m also very nervous and worried about seeing so much destruction and poverty. 80% of pisco is destroyed. and september is like the coldest month of the year here. even though the 1st day of spring is the 23rd ...
Peru mi amor!
... traîner à Lima, vu que je vais devoir y revenir pour reprendre l'avion de toute manière. Ce matin, j'ai pris un bus direction Pisco (235 kilomètres au sud de Lima, sur la côte), en admirant la superbe vue; à gauche, d'immenses dunes de sable doré, ...
Trembling grounds...
... you can imagine, now a lot of the locals, especially the kids, are all scared of another repeat of the earthquake that levelled Pisco last August...and we're still cleaning up from. In all honesty, there's so much work here and so little money that ...