Fantastic Fiestas: three of the world’s great festivals
This is the second post in the Travel Highlights series sharing some of the most enduring highlights of all our …
Category Archives: Peru
A Portrait of South America
26 Sept 2013 – 24 March 2014. We began on the east coast of the continent in Buenos Aires, Argentina. …
A Party of Epic Proportions! The Festival of the Virgin of Candelaria.
The core of Fiesta Candelaria is the music and dance festival and competition. On the first Sunday of February about …
Boots, Booze and Buxom Babes. The Festival of the Virgin of Candelaria.
31 Jan-11 Feb 2014. Despite the title of this post there is a solemn religious component to Candelaria that is …
Dance ’til you drop! The Festival of the Virgin of Candelaria.
31 Jan-11Feb 2014. We are in Puno for Festividad Virgen de la Candelaria. Don is in bed flattened by food …
Monkey business – the amazing Amazon
13-21 February 2014. High in the Andes in Peru year after year the snow melts into rivulets forming creeks forming …
Joy of the Jungle – the amazing Amazon
13-21 February 2014. Wearing headlamps, we shoved our feet into our knee-high rubber boots, and following our guide and his …
Bricks, bones, and bloody awful bikes: a short stay in Lima.
23-30 January 2014. We flew from Cusco to Lima for a week in the city. I wouldn’t put Lima at …
Ollanta, Fiesta, Corrida, Olé – Ollantaytambo, Peru
6 and 14-17 Jan 2014. Ollantaytambo, on the Patakancha River, flowing into the Urubamba, is about 70 kilometers northwest of …
Empire of the Sun God: Machu Picchu and Pisac, Peru
Many years ago when I was about twenty-eight I hiked the Inca Trail with a group of friends. The Inca …
Chinchero: crowds, colour, and sacred ceremonies
5 January 2014. Those of you who read the blog regularly know that I was in South America 35 years …
Trains, plains, and Cusco’s sexy woman
30 Dec 2013 – 23 Jan 2014. Cusco and Ollantaytambo, Peru From Don: 30 December 2013. The luxury train from …
Reeds Rocks Pumas and Gods – Lake Titicaca, Bolivia and Peru
26-29 Dec 2013. Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world at 3800 metres (12,500ft). About two-thirds of …
Adventures in Wonderland 