Hostal Posada Hispana
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Pisco, Poo and Pictionary
The next stop was Pisco, the grape growing town that gives the brandy, and The Cocktail, its name. Provided you believe the Peruvian take on pisco-centric events.
The town was devastated by an earthquake into 2006 and has been struggling to clamber out of the rubble ever since. Though four years have elapsed since the quake, Pisco's …
Bird watching and sand boarding combo
Arrived to Pisco, not really knowing that much about the history of the town except, that it had a cateogory 8 earthquake in 2007. Almost four years later and the town still haven't recovered from the earthquake, streets are in rumbles and houses and buildings are all torn down and vacant. There are a lot of people displaced from their home and …
12°02′S, 77°01′W
Lima
A big city, but we live in London, so not much to say:
Day 1
Inca ruins at Pachacamac- 'he who animated the world' -they say this complex was the site of an important ceremonial centre for 1000 years before the expansion of the Inca empire, named after the powerful Wari god, now it's mostly rubble. As we stood in the fog …
I Go on a Boat Trip to the Ballestas Islands
Met up with the group yesterday morning at the hotel in Miraflores, Lima. Jose is our leader (Peru), Barry and Evvy (Canada), Stan and Eva (US), Ian and Helen (UK), Katherine and Fiona (Oz), Val (not me - UK), Yuki (Japan) and Anders (Sweden), A much more balanced mix than the last bunch and as Anders is the lone single male each of us women get a …
My first cultureshock
..From Lima we took a local bus to Pisco, 4 hours drive. Shirey our local tourguide advised us stronlgy to keep an eye on hour bags and do not talk to anyone..they will try to steal, she said.
Pisco area was damaged baldy by an earthquake in 2007, around 1 million people lost their lifes. It was shocking, you can still see the damaged houses …