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#18: Peruvian Adventures (Part 6: Huacachina, Paracas and the Islas Ballestas)
Waiting to get on the overnight bus, a lady in the queue behind us said “wow, you’re going to Ica? There’s been loads of earthquakes there recently!”. This did not inspire a huge amount of confidence for the trip, particularly as it came in the wake of a rather nerve wracking hunt through the local… Read more
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#17: Peruvian Adventures (Part 5: Colca Canyon and an Arequipan adventure)
Post wedding, we set off in what looked to be an ex-tour minibus on a gatecrashed honeymoon/school trip to the Colca Canyon. The journey to simply get out of Arequipa took about an hour, and then a few more hours took us on a crazy route along very dusty roads, filled with expanses of nothingness… Read more
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#16: Peruvian Adventures (Part 4: Final day in Cusco and a Wedding in Arequipa)
Our final day in Cusco started off slightly stressfully with most of our morning pre-flight spent in a cafe with very questionable wifi trying to book a winter parking spot for our car back in France. This sounds simple but it turns out another joy of living in a ski town is that underground parking… Read more
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#15: Peruvian Adventures (Part 3: Moray, Marras and Chincero)
We are not normally tour sort of people, but there are times to accept that you need to be herded like a sheep in order to access certain places, particularly in a country when you have no access to transport and said place you want to visit is several hours away. As a result, on… Read more
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#14: Peruvian Adventures (Part 2: Cusco and its Archaeological Sites)
After a good sleep, thanks to jet-lag we woke up at 4.45am, in perfect time to go for a 5am sunrise walk. We had assumed the city would be asleep at such an early time but were proven wrong – the citizens of Cusco (not the tourists!) are early risers and it was a great… Read more
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#13: Peruvian Adventures (Part 1 – Flights)
Day 1: Leave from the mountains. 3 hour drive to Lyon. Get to the check-in desk and be told that we need an ESTA. Eliza had checked about this previously and the airline didn’t mention it, but it turns out that even if you don’t leave the airport in America and just transit through, you… Read more
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