Hostal Tambo Colorado Pisco

... very basic but clean, and nobody else was in the restaurant. How could I be sure that their facilities were OK and I would not come down with a food poisoning? Well, you have to live dangerously sometimes, so I took the chance. The dish was surprisingly spicy, but tasty. Luckily, it was served with yams which helped take off some of the chilli flavour. They had served bread to it as well, however, the first pleasure of receiving nice warm bread quickly faded, when it turned out ...

... orange life jackets that made everyone look like road safety t**ts, and we sped off into the rising sun. Cool air washed through my head like an ice bucket and my avocado and cheese sandwich that I´d eaten for breakfast began to make its way back up from the depths as we bounced around on the open sea.<br><br>Our first stop was the Candelabra, a strange shaped sign a bit like a poor man´s Nazca line that had apparently been inscribed in the desert hill for centuries ...

... by and large just dusty remnants of what used to be. The banks had rebuilt themselves of course but the tatters of the city that once was had an eerie silence to it. We decided to skip town as most of the hostels seemed to have half of their building missing.<br><br>Now we knew why the taxi driver had asked us whether we preferred to got to Parakas instead, and seemed reluctant to take us to Pisco. To the port captain! We´re going to poor man´s Galapagos!.

... haben uns nur 10 Minuten aufgehalten und den Abend im Hotel verbracht. <br>Naechsten Tag haben wir die Ballestas Insel besucht, wowir viele Pelikane, Seeloewen und Pinguine beobachtet haben, so niedlich.<br>Doch der beste Teil des Tage war das Sandboarding in den Duenen von Huacachina, unser Fahrer hat uns wie wild durch de Duenen gefahren und ich hab nur meine Augen geschlossen gehalten. Ich glaub die Bilder verraten alles. <br><br>

... Boobies, Humboldt Penguins (adorable), Pancho the<br>Sea lion and his nest of concubines, a guano-guard who bummed two<br>cigarettes off me, giant starfish and mussels galore, and glimpsed<br>the crest of a few passing bottle-nosed dolphins. His tour was<br>excellent, as was Silvio in every way imaginable, meandering us from<br>place to place with the networking skills of a high-level executive,<br>until on Saturday, it began to feel like we were about to ...

After a few days of grey skies and chilly wandering around Lima we decided to pack our bags and head south to an oasis in the desert that some other backpackers in Lima were talking about. We decided to mark our last day in Lima by drinking too much and hanging around with locals in sandwich bars. This meant that I didn´t quite enjoy our bus trip down the coast as much as Nadine as I was unable to eat... The ...

After our two days in Lima, we got a bus to a very small town called Pisco. We decided to go there as we had read that you could take a boat tour to Ballestas Island, which is often described as ´The Poor Man´s Galapagos Island´. Well, i guess that´s us! In other words the island is not as good but does have plenty of wildlife to see, such as sea lions and lots of different species of birds.<br>Pisco itself isn´t a ...

... der Armut des Dorfes überrascht. Vor genau 2 Jahren gab es eines der stärksten Erdbeben Perus in dieser Gegend. Das Epizentrum lag 70 km südlich in Ica und das Erdbeben forderte über 1000 Tote und hinterließ zig-tausende Obdachlose. Wir konnten sehen, dass der Wiederaufbau der Häuser durch die Bevölkerung trotz humanitäre Hilfsgelder ohne die Hilfe der Regierung stattfand. Die peruanische Organisation Lunda hat inzwischen öffentlich kritisiert, dass die afroperuanische ...