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The Best of South America Part 2: Travellers Share Their Tips
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 25 January 2012
To celebrate the launch of our free ebook South America Highlights we asked other travel bloggers to share their favourite places and experiences on the continent. In Part 1 we heard their top tips for Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and Brazil and now in Part 2 we move on to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. For exhilarating [...]
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Pastoruri Glacier: Journey to 5,000 Meters
Blog: GoBackpacking - 18 December 2011
astoruri Glacier is located a few hours from Huaraz, in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca. Those who have been following me since my ’round the world trip know I’ve got a fascination with creeping up to higher and higher elevations. I can still remember when I thought hiking the Tongariro Crossing in New Zealand, which hits 1,800 [...]
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A “Day of the Dead” Visit to Huascaran, Peru’s Tallest Mountain
Blog: GoBackpacking - 16 December 2011
arrived in Huaraz (elev: 3,100 meters), at the foot of Peru’s Cordillera Blanca, just as the rainy season was getting underway. I didn’t care. This was the gateway to Peru’s tallest mountains, including Huascaran at 6,768 meters (22,205 feet), and I wasn’t going to miss it on my first visit to the country. After all, [...]
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Escape From Huaraz
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 25 January 2011
UPDATE: Unfortunately, our discussions with Universal have now fallen through. Something about “Focus Groups” and “Believability”. However, if you’re interested in picking up the film rights, or know someone who is, leave a comment. Based on actual events. Chapter 1: The Man Comes To Town. Who Is That Man? That Man Is Death.
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Photo of the Week: Colourful Dress in the Andes
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 2 January 2011
We spent three weeks in a remote rural area in the Andes above Huaraz, Peru. Every day we’d pass Quechua speaking women in their traditional colourful dress. Everyone had long plaits under tall, embroidered hats, wide bright skirts, woolly tights and colourful cardigans.
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Peru Highlights
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 21 December 2010
We didn’t do any of the things you are supposed to do in Peru: we didn’t walk the Inca Trail, spot condors at Colca Canyon, go sand boarding in Huacachina, or fly over the Nazca lines.
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Vegetarian Survival Guide to Peru
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 16 December 2010
Was Peru better for vegetarians than anywhere else in South America? In a word, no. We still lacked the ability to be able to eat cheap, local food as it almost always contained meat.
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Photo of the Week: Giant Vat of Soup at Andean Community Event
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 12 December 2010
While volunteering at a mountain lodge near Huaraz, Peru we attended the inauguration event of the local school and community centre. We had never seen such huge vats of soup – the essential first course for any Andean lunch.
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Lazy Dog Inn: A Mountain Retreat in Peru
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 9 December 2010
Our bodies jolted as we bumped along the steep, rock-strewn, pot-holed, muddy track. We thought we’d seen bad roads in Bolivia, but this was something else.
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Caraz - Peruvian Andes
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 13 April 2010
In the Cordillera Blanca, you have the opportunity to explore the mountainous countryside and then return to stay in some of the most peaceful towns you're likely to find in South America. We picked out a place called Caraz which is an hour and a half down the road from Huaraz. It really is down the road too. I was surprised to learn that Caraz is almost a kilometer further down in altitude. There was no switchback roads on the journey, just gentle downhill descent that at times you didn't even notice it.
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Huaraz – Back To The Altitude And Laguna 69
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 8 April 2010
Assuming that we were going to be cold, wet and miserable, it was with a slightly heavy heart that we bought our bus tickets for Huaraz. Bear in mind that we’d spent more than a week lazing around on a beach and were in no mood to move anywhere, that our last Andes experience had [...]
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Laguna 69 - high up in the Peruvian Andes
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 7 April 2010
Four thousand, six hundred meters above sea level is a bright turquoise lake surrounded by snowy mountain peaks going by the name of Laguna 69. It is the popular day hike you can do from Huaraz – and one that our hostel was keen that we attempted on our first day in the Cordillera Blanca. I’m very much glad that we didn’t, instead opting to do the hike a few days later. After all, this is a destination 13,000 ft in altitude (it sounds much more impressive in feet) and is not to be sniffed at, especially if you’ve spent the previous week lounging on a beach.
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Huaraz - sun and rain, sun and rain...
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 5 April 2010
The overnight bus from Trujillo to Huaraz did not yield much sleep, although I probably had more than if I’d really been trying. I’m finding it much better to assume that I will be awake all night as it takes the pressure off, and any sleep I do get is a welcome bonus! We arrived in Huaraz at about 7.30am, and along with our new friends Jo and Nathan, we took up the offer of a free taxi to a place called Caroline Lodging – offering travellers a free ride after an all-nighter on the bus makes such good business sense, I’m surprised its not more popular.
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The Best Hostels in Latin America
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 14 November 2009
Travelling for a year, constantly on the move, rarely staying more than three or four days in one place, where I end up staying makes a huge difference to my my stress levels. End up in a nice hostel, with things like comfy beds, warm showers, free breakfasts, a good location and a nice atmosphere [...]
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… and back to the Andes
Blog: One Year+ of Vagabonding through Latin America - 13 November 2009
I awaken to the cold steel light of dawn filtering through the drawn curtains. The windows are fogged over indicating how cold it is outside, but I occasionally catch glimpses of the passing scenery. It looks like Iceland – barren tundra, ice floes in the river paralleling the road. Mist and fog hang over everything, [...]
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Highlights of Latin America
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 1 November 2009
I had such an awesome time in Latin America it’s pretty hard to pick out favourite moments. But I’m going to give it a go anyway. Here are the best things I’ve seen and done over the past six and a half months, along with links to what I originally wrote about them. Favourite City: Valparaiso, [...]
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The Adventures of Pig and Donkey
Blog: Documentariously Challenged - 10 October 2009
Here’s a story, two characters, one setting. Donkey, character 1, is built to travel long distances. Sometimes, well, usually, in harsh mountain terrain and in this case, at high altitude. His body is structured with strong legs, the right length and girth for climbing steep things. Stamina, bred for longevity. [...]
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Cordillera Blanca = AMAZING
Blog: Documentariously Challenged - 10 October 2009
Today is Thursday, October 8th. I’m not sure when this will actually be posted on the blog, but I figured that I should get us caught up. I believe Erin last wrote on the 4th in Huanchaco, but I’m not exactly sure since we don’t have the internet right now. We’re at [...]
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Trekking the Huayhuash Circuit (Part 2)
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 3 September 2009
(You can read Part 1 here) Day Six After a tough first few days, it turned out the worst was yet to come for Aidan, my hiking companion – as if the physical exertion and affects of altitude weren’t enough, today was the day he inevitable came down with diarrhea, whereas yet again I was fine. I could [...]
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Trekking the Huayhuash Circuit (Part 1)
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 1 September 2009
Besthike.com describes the Huayhuash circuit as ‘arguably the best hike in the world’. Other sources I’ve seen reckon it’s the second best after the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal. Reports like that meant that hiking there was the single thing I was most looking forward to in my entire year of travelling. I knew it’d be [...]
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The Santa Cruz Trek
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 30 August 2009
The Santa Cruz trek is the best known and most popular trek in the Cordillera Blanca, and for good reason. Over the course of four days, it loops around the highest part of the range, mostly staying beautiful alpine valleys, and giving stunning views of the range’s tallest and most beautiful mountains, as well as [...]
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Trekking to Laguna Churup
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 28 August 2009
Arriving in Huaraz was just what I needed after six weeks in Colombia. I mean, I wouldn´t say I partied non-stop there, but it´d be fair to say it was my most sociable country so far. What I need was a bit of time up in the mountains to get away from it all, and [...]
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