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A Detour to Peru’s Chavin de Huantar
Blog: Vagobond.com - 12 January 2012
Ancash lies quietly to the north of Lima, ignored by too many people who hop past to the golden northern beaches, the central jungle, or Cusco and Machu Picchu. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Cusco to Colombia in a Combi: Days 7 to 11 (Lima to Máncora)
Blog: The Brink of Something Else - 18 August 2011
Days 1-6, here Hours chugging along slowly in the Volkswagen, piled on top of each other as the monotonous desert roads slide past the windows. Long pauses to cool a rapidly overheating motor. Hours more broken down and waiting in the drugging heat for the local mechanic of a dusty anonymous town to appear from [...]
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From Peru to Ecuador via the Macará border!
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 31 January 2011
After trying to do a fair amount of research on border crossings we found that little information existed about the Macará border crossing. Plenty of information exists about the Tumbes border crossing, in the far north west corner of Peru, but we didn’t want to travel in that direction. I think it is only a [...]
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To Peru!
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 17 March 2010
First a word on Loja. We decided to break up the journey south with a stop off there, in southern Ecuador. While it has some pretty enough sights, there really isn't much to do there. Looking at the photos I took now makes me think we got to stay somewhere quite cool for a night. It really didn't seem cool at the time. There just wasn't a great lot to do there.
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What the hell is there to do in Piura?
Blog: The Brink of Something Else - 24 February 2010
Unsurprisingly enough, given my famed levels of disorganisation, I never did manage to make it to Cajamarca. Turned up in Guayaquil around 5.30 pm and bought a ticket with CIFA to Piura, the furthest point south in Peru possible from Ecuador – that I could find anyway, no doubt one can get to Lima – for the bargain price of US$11.50. Really bargain as it turned out, there was nothing comfortable at all about that particular leg of the trip.
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