Country Overview: Travelling in Peru

Posted by Steve on October 24, 2009, at 2:48 pm | Category: Country Overviews, General, Peru | Leave a comment

One of the last and best shots of Machu Picchu, as the sun goes down it gets ready for another day.
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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: Boarding in Huacachina desert and Flying over Nazca!

Posted by Steve on August 14, 2009, at 10:49 am | Category: Peru, Photos | One comment

Lynette and I in front of our death buggy that careered over the dunes with a complete disregard for human life.
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Lynette and I in front of our death buggy that careered over the dunes with a complete disregard for human life.01-Aug-2009 22:40, Canon Canon EOS 400D DIGIT, 10.0, 28.0mm, 0.004 sec, ISO 400

After our amazing morning checking out sea lions and bird poo in Isla Ballestas, we were heading out to a fabled oasis in the middle of the desert, Huacachina. This was our mini weekend break, after which we would be flying over one of the great South American traveller’s tick boxes, the Nazca lines. In Huacachina we’d been looking forward to trying sand boarding without injuring yet another body part, and in Nazca attempting to keep our stomachs under control while being thrown around in a tiny Cessna. Would we succeed in both?!

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