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August 31, 2009 By 2 Comments

After saying goodbye to Lima we arrived in Arequipa early in the morning looking to do two things, hike in a canyon and eat some great food. As eating great food has never been a problem in Peru we quickly got to work seeing all the things this “white” city had to offer us before [...]

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Lima Like a Local

August 28, 2009 By 3 Comments

So while in Lima we got some visas (Bolivia and Brazil) and cooked for ourselves for once. We slept in the same beautiful apartment for more than 3 nights in a row and even showed a couple of friends from from our Huaraz trek around for a day. Mostly though, we did our best to [...]

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Lima Apartment Rental (Lima, Peru)

August 28, 2009 By 3 Comments
Lima Apartment Rental (Lima, Peru)

Hotel rooms, no matter what city and no matter what country all seem to blend together after a while. Five months of travel from hostal to hostal, hotel room to hotel room and no matter what we were going to enjoy our time in the Lima apartment. Walking in, we dropped our bags and made [...]

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Finally, there are penguins!

August 27, 2009 By 1 Comment

Full of Pisco and sand, we headed out at dawn the next morning to Paracas, home to one of the best marine reserves in South America. Piling into our speedboat at 7am, the tour guide narrated a short history of the area in both Spanish and English as we pulled out to sea. Our first [...]

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