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Daily Travel Snapshot: Cusco, Peru
Blog: WildJunket - 23 August 2011
Girls in colorful dresses in Cusco, Peru.
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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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100 Greatest Travel Experiences: How Many Have We Done?
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 17 August 2011
People who hear that we plan to travel forever sometimes ask us if we’ll run out of places to visit. Now we can point them to Wanderlust’s list of 100 Greatest Travel Experiences. The British travel magazine asked readers to vote on what they consider the ultimate travel experiences, as travel is more about the [...]
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Couchsurfing in Cusco
Blog: Vagobond.com - 21 July 2011
Sitting on a bus waiting to leave Cusco for the weekend, I was pleased to hear the conversation behind turn to CouchSurfing.
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Discover Inca Secrets in Peru
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 20 July 2011
100 years ago, Hiram Bingham rediscovered the lost Inca City of Machu Picchu and almost instantaneously he and National Geographic magazine moved this Wonder of the New World into top spot on everyone’s “must do” travel list. How would you like to make discoveries of your own in Peru? Projects Abroad sponsors the Inca Project, [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library.
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Machu Picchu: 100 Years
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 18 July 2011
Destination: Peru Book: Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time (NEW: June 2011) by Mark Adams I’m celebrating the anniversary of the rediscovery of Machu Picchu this week, although for some reason the Peruvian government jumped the gun and celebrated early–on July 8. Sometimes I really love this job. [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library.
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I’m a Type A American Personality
Blog: Vagobond.com - 11 July 2011
This is what I want to learn here in Peru; how to be, to exist, to live, to love, where and what and when and who I am.
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An Unseen Side of Machu Picchu: La Gran Caverna or Templo de la Luna
Blog: The Brink of Something Else - 24 June 2011
With 2,500 people trampling over its manicured lawns and shooing its herd of chilled-out llamas into the optimally photogenic pose, finding an unseen corner of Machu Picchu seems impossible. And it is: almost. But there is one corner you can slip away into, if you have the time and energy. You won’t see an incredible [...]
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5 Safety Tips for Taking Taxis in Latin America
Blog: GoBackpacking - 23 June 2011
5 universal safety tips for taking taxis in Latin America.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 27 tutorials, 12 expert audio interviews, private support forum, and much more.
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Cusco’s Sacred Valley by Car
Blog: The Brink of Something Else - 14 June 2011
There’s nothing quite like a family visit to spur an expat into hyper-turistic mode. I’ve been in Peru for about a year and a half now, and the list of places I haven’t been yet is embarrassingly long. The last few days have seen quite a few of them scrubbed off the list, at least. [...]
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Puenting of Life – Bridge Jumping in Peru – Part 1
Blog: Vagobond.com - 26 May 2011
We headed out of the chaos of the city and up towards the highlands, in the foothills of the Andes, just two hours away from my downtown home.
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Backwater Adventures in the Peruvian Amazon Part 2
Blog: Vagobond.com - 23 May 2011
Along the way he stopped to point out tracks left by a jaguar, and later a tapir. The canopy bristled with screeching monkeys and the almost Jurassic calls of countless bird species.
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Backwater Adventures in the Peruvian Amazon Part 1
Blog: Vagobond.com - 22 May 2011
I set off into the jungle with my guide Achiles on his narrow riverboat. We were heading deep into the Amazon for five days to visit Achiles’ friend Don Luis in the village of Nueva Utuquinia, roughly halfway between Pucallpa and the Brazilian border.
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Cusco to Colombia in a Combi: Days 1 – 6
Blog: The Brink of Something Else - 10 May 2011
“Bad news, guys. The engine’s doing that thing again.” It’s 4:30 am in the morning and we’re at a service station in a place called Huacho, somewhere between Lima and Trujillo. This is not news we want to hear. The five of us plus dog that are heaped on top of each other in the [...]
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Lonely Planet's Blogsherpa Program Produces Its First Photo Ebook
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 3 May 2011
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Today (May 3rd, 2011) the Lonely Planet Blogsherpa group launched their first photo e-book. AlpacaSuitcase is one of the 40 featured Lonely Planet bloggers. The following is directly from the Lonely Planet website:
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Update from the Field: Farewells, Mistaken Identities + Micro-Microfinance
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 2 May 2011
Compiled by Alexis Ditkowsky, KF14, South Africa We've officially hit the point in the Kiva Fellows cycle where the current batch says goodbye just as the latest group is getting their bearings at Kiva HQ. Fortunately, there are a number of posts this week to help us through the transition and cheer us up. If you're interested in a comprehensive image gallery of the hot designs for share taxis in Rwanda, we've got you covered.
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A Trip To The Supermercado
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 30 April 2011
Supermercado MegaThere are plenty of local abarrotes (corner grocery shops) near us, but just like the ubiquitous 7-11 convenience stores back home in the United States, the selection is poor and the prices are re
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25 Years Working Where the Need is Greatest
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 26 April 2011
By Noreen Giga, KF 14, Peru Founded in 1986, Prisma is celebrating 25 years of bringing "financial services and non-financial services to disadvantaged communities in order to strengthen them, and promote sustainable social and economic development." And the credit branch of Prisma, Microfinanzas Prisma, formed in 1994 is celebrating 17 years of reaching Peru's urban and rural poor.
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Searching For Shoelaces In Cusco
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 17 April 2011
The Master of Shoe Repair
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Miguel Angel's Choice
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 12 April 2011
Wood carving detail on my chairIn some ways, Miguel Angel is much like the city in which he was born.
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Update from the Field: Cute Pigs, New Toilets + Everything is Relative
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 11 April 2011
Compiled by Alexis Ditkowsky, KF14, South Africa It’s hard to believe but the current batch of Kiva Fellows has been in the field for over two months and most of us have only a few weeks left to go. We’re getting swept up in completing deliverables, making the most of our final month in country, and starting to plot our lives after Kiva. (Travel plans = fun. Applying for “real” jobs = less fun.) Fortunately, starting May 7, a brand new assortment of Fellows will be coming your way and a few KF14 veterans will be sticking around to show them the ropes.
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The Best And The Worst Haircut
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 6 April 2011
Peruvian barber shopOne of the things that I did not have time to do prior to leaving for South America was get a haircut; there were just too many things to do, plus I figured that I could always get a cheap o
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Update from the Field: April Fools, Terrible Coffee + Getting Attached
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 4 April 2011
Compiled by Alexis Ditkowsky, KF14, South Africa We hope you enjoyed our April Fools post on Friday! While we were entertaining ourselves pulling it all together, we also found the time to attend to some serious matters: coffee in Colombia is no joke (in a bad way), some borrowers are easier to locate than others, and oftentimes Fellows must say goodbye to people and places before they’re ready to.
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Going Back – Lonely Planet Blogsherpa Carnival #21
Blog: No Beaten Path - 1 April 2011
Some great posts about going back and visiting somewhere you have been before.
