Casa Andina Classic - Chincha Sausal
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Puny Pisco
... We buy ourselves a bottle of the wine to present to the family that we will be staying with in a few weeks time on our trip.
We head back onto the bus for another 2 hours until our next stop - I think the free samples have got to most people as the bus is very quiet!! We then pull over off he Pan-American Highway where we get our first glimpse of the famous Nazca lines. We're ushered off the bus, pay our 2 sol and climb a somewhat rickety looking metal lookout point. The sun ...
General San Martin got shafted
... of Pisco, but an earthquake pretty much leveled the town in 2007 and it is not yet back on its feet. The maps indicate mostly "the former site of" instead of real sights.
This is a dry part of Peru: not quite the Atacama Desert (which has not seen rain for 400 years), but close. The guide said the area gets about twenty minutes (not inches, minutes) of rain every two years. Rain as we know it is ...
The long road to Nazca
... community. Once we got through the first road block which subsided after a while of queuing, we got through day 3 of the protest about the prison with no delay at all. It was probably the bus company´s excuse for a having a day off.
On Saturday early morning we got to the Ballestas Islands (mini Galapagos with millions of birds including Peruvian Boobies and more penguins than ...
Bird droppings & Mysterious Inca lines
... what we were expecting from Peru - felt like we were in the middle east or the sahara in morocco. The ticket collector on the bus forgot to tell us when to get off and realized almost a km from the bus stop so we had to walk with our super heavy backpacks in the dust and heat. And Pisco itself was not impressive at all. But fair enough it did completely flattened in a huge earthquake in 2007 and the town is still recovering. Most of the second stories ...
Afro-Peruvian Hospitality
... that we have attended we have learned a lot about the Incas and groups of Peru in pre-Inca time. However, we have not learned a lot about the story of Africans in Peru. Chincha, a busy commercial town on the coast is named the center of Afro-Peruvian culture. However, to date there are no museums/tours/etc. regarding this population. The town is famous for its dance/music festivals in the summer (Nov-Feb in Peru), where the town is overloaded ...
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