Country Overview: Travelling in Peru

One of the last and best shots of Machu Picchu, as the sun goes down it gets ready for another day.

One of the last and best shots of Machu Picchu, as the sun goes down it gets ready for another day.19-Aug-2009 22:13, Canon Canon EOS 400D DIGIT, 7.1, 28.0mm, 0.008 sec, ISO 400

Introduction: Peru is a vast country, the 28th largest in the world, with desert on its coast, the andes for its backbone and vast jungle inland to the East. Famous for its Incan ruins, we also visited the less travelled archeological North for evidence of pre-Incan cultures including the Chimu and Moche. A fascinating country that kept us occupied and entertained, we loved every minute.

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Gallery: Pre-Incan Indiana Jones trekking in Chiclayo and Trujillo!

Our smiling faces overlooking the Tucume ruins.

Our smiling faces overlooking the Tucume ruins.24-Jul-2009 21:03, Canon Canon EOS 400D DIGIT, 10.0, 28.0mm, 0.004 sec, ISO 400

After whizzing through Ecuador with a small taster of Incan ruins, we were keen to explore Northern Peru and its Pre-Incan treasures which are often skipped out by travellers heading to Cusco at breakneck speed. We found rich history and better understood the history of these amazing civilisations; it’s not all just the Incas in South America… plus I lost something I’d been cultivating for some time, which unlike most gardening attempts hadn’t actually died on me yet.

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