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Life is what's happening while you're busy making other plans

Life is what's happening while you're busy making other plans
Life is what's happening while you're busy making other plans
28 avril 2010

The end of Peru

After our experience with the money exchange guys in Iquitos, we left town pretty quickly ;)We took a plane to Lima the next day. Then a bus to Tumbes, just at the border with Ecuador. All in all, we spent a good 6 weeks in Peru, without even going near...
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18 avril 2010

Scams to cheat tourists

In Iquitos on Thursday we were running out of peruvian cash, so while I waited in a restaurant, Thomas set out to exchange 150€ to peruvian soles. He came back a little while later, quite please with himself as he had managed to get an exchange rate of...
15 avril 2010

Amazonia

Amazonia
After Chachapoyas, we headed to Yurimaguas, to finally reach the Amazon and go into the jungle.Making our way from Chachapoyas to Yurimaguas ended up being much more complicated than planned because heavy rains caused a landslide on the roads. This meant...
15 avril 2010

Chiclayo - Chachapoyas

Long time no write! After a relaxed weekend at the beach in Huanchaco, we moved on to Chiclayo. In Lambayeque, a 10-minute drive from Chiclayo, are Peru's 2 most impressive museums. The museum of Sipan is incredibly rich due to the fact that archeologists...
26 mars 2010

Huaraz - Trujillo

Next stop was Lima. To be honest, we didn't like it at all and we're not really looking to visit big noisy cities during our trip. So we stopped there for two days, but did not visit a thing! just rested and watched tv... :s Next stop was Huaraz. And...
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15 mars 2010

Ica - Huacachina

After the Colca Canyon, we were back in Arequipa. We took a night bus to Nazca. We arrived at 6:30 am, grabbed a taxi to the airport and bought two tickets for a half hour flight over the mysterious Nazca lines. Amazing... really really impressive. Apart...
11 mars 2010

Canyon de Colca

Just a quick note to say that we just spent two days in the Canyon de Colca. We took a bus to Cabanaconde and went walking down the Canyon, to the river. 2h30 sliding down the rocky trail under a scorching hot sun. When we arrived at the river, we were...
8 mars 2010

Peru

The crossing of the border into Peru has a story. We wanted to take the bus from Copacabana (BOL) to Puno (PER). However there is a bit of political tension in Peru at the moment, so there are many strikes. This meant that the road from Bolivia to Peru...
4 mars 2010

End of Bolivia

After La Paz, we headed on to Copacabana (not the one in Brazil, which in fact is named after the town in Bolivia) which is on the lake Titicaca. The bus ride took a little longer than expect since on the way there we had to cross a bridge. Unfortunately...
27 février 2010

Samaipata - La Paz

No news for a while there... we arrived in Samaipata thinking we would stay two-three days and ended up staying a whole week. Samaipata is a small village about 130 km from Santa Cruz. Starting to be a bit touristy but it remains really peacefull. So...
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