South America a land of Ancient ruins, salt flats seen from space, deserts that never experience rain, the third largest ice cap in the world and more!
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the streets every horn was honking, even the geese When to Honk your Horn in Peru Christmas in Lima, Peru Christmas in Lima Peru, horns are honking and firecrackers bursting, setting off car alarms on every street. Shrill Christmas tunes play in a loop all night long […]
Updated: Dec, 7th 2019 Need to travel to Peru from Cuenca, Ecuador? Here are three options if you want to take a bus from Cuenca to Peru (Mancora, Piura, or Chiclayo), with departure times and ticket prices. All three options begin from Cuenca’s Terminal Terrestre, located at the west end of Ave. España. From our
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Seventeen Years Ago The cold night air seemed to reach to the bone and the boy’s entire body shivers. He shifts the cardboard underneath him. It does little to keep the night chill from encompassing him in a city at 8,000 feet above sea level. He watches as his breath, a frozen white mist, dissipates before
The Santa Cruz Trek is a 50-kilometer-long circuit that cuts through the towering snow-capped Cordillera Blanca mountains located in the Andes. The ascent tops out at 4,750 meters (15,600 feet) as it crosses the Punta Union pass. CAN I DO THE SANTA CRUZ? I questioned my ability to do the Santa Cruz Trek. I
Ecuador has much to offer. We used up almost our entire three-month visa before moving on to Peru. Still, it seems that we only touched the surface of what this beautiful country has to offer. Granted, we did spend much of our time in Quito at the Dunamis Foundation, but we still have a few
Huanchaco, Peru, where the desert meets the sea, and the dry breeze cools the skin while the sun warms the soul. We took the overnight bus from Cuenca, Ecuador to Chiclayo, Peru. In the early hours, I awoke. Moving the window curtain aside, I peered out to take in my first glimpse of Peru. The
The Quilotoa Loop is a remote trail linking several high Andean villages and towns in the Cotopaxi province. The ancient trails meander through the Andes Mountains of Ecuador with views of snow-capped volcanoes. The isolation of the trails brings wanderers into contact with Kichwa-speaking indigenous and their centuries-old way of life. It also allows them
On the eighth and final day of our Floreana cruise, we looped around the island called Daphne Major, twice. What a treat. Not really. It’s a tiny island named after a British naval vessel, that is inhabited by many species of birds including the Darwin Finch, Frigatebirds, and Nazca Boobies. This was a filler activity,
When someone yells, Shark! while swimming, normally people get out of the water. So I had to laugh at the irony when, while snorkeling, I saw a Galapagos shark under our yacht, pulled my head out of the water and yelled Shark! so that my other shipmates could swim over and see it. Almost every day
Years ago, watching a documentary on the Galapagos Islands, I was enamored with the idea of an isolated place with species of animals found nowhere else in the world. At the time it was a distant place in another world, an unattainable paradise. When Trin and I walked off the plane onto Baltra island I
