Three words describe this infinite horizon of the Puna desert, land , salt plains and blue sky. This high plateau is over 4000 mtrs and it is amazing with the snow-capped peaks, black volcanic rock and its wide seas of salt plains, lagoonas of pink flamingos, surrounded by vicunas and lamas dotted against the skyline. The Andian region is a [….]

After some delay with Aerolines Argentinas we finally arrived into Salta. This city has a unique characteristic that sets is apart from the rest of the provinces in Argentina. It has a combination of geographic diversity and strong traditional and cultural heritage. To a certain extent its feature define Salta, and has earned it as a well deserved reputation as [….]

We arrived into Lima from the Amazon Jungle and transferred to our hotel where we were given rooms to shower rest and repack before transferring to the airport for our to flight Iguazu Falls via Buenos Aires. On our arrival in BA we were met and transferred from the International Terminal to the Domestic which took around 1 hour quite [….]

Sadly we departed Cuzco after what was an incredible stay in what I think is the most beautiful city in Peru. Next stop Amazon! Arriving into Puerto Maldanad0 it was steamy and around 30deg. a slight difference from 15 deg in Cuzco. We all thought that we would melt when we stepped off the plane. It was a 45 minute [….]

This is not a specific tourist track as such, but a walk through the spectacular Lares Valley in Peru’s. On one of the many tracks used by the local farming communities. We travelled from the village of Huanan (2840m) in the Sacred Valley, Sth of Peru, through the Lares Valley, gradually working our way higher and higher to the Pachacutec [….]

We departed Urumbumba for Ollyantatambo where we were to tranfer to a second vehicle to station number 82 were we were to take the train to Aguas Calientas. The floods in February caused massive damage to the railway tracks and road between Urumbumba and Station 82 evidence of this was seen along the way with erosion and several damaged railway [….]

We departed our hotel in Urumbumba for a 35 minute drive to the start of our trek to the Indian Community village of Misminay situated at 3700 mtts. Arriving at our start point at 9.30am and before heading out on the trail we were handed our snack pack to keep up our energy levels. It is was an easy undulating [….]

1. Sign of Chichibumba 2. Working in the fields 3-4 Bee Harvesting 5-6 Chocolate Beans and finished product 7-8 Making Pottery and Painting of Pottery

I have been having such a great time and so busy that I have not had time to catch up with the blog until now, so I will now go back to last Tuesday and fill you in on what we have been up to. Last Tuesday we departed Puno for Cuzco on an exciting bus journey through the Peruvian [….]

Peru has an abundance of fresh food and Peruvians eat their traditional dishes on an every day basis. The sea (Pacific Ocean) and the rivers coming down to the coast provide a variety of fish and shell fish. The plentiful supply of water from the Andes – despite the arid and dry terrain allows for production of a wide variety [….]

Yesterday we drove from Chivay to Puno it took around 6 hours with several stops along the way, and most of those stops were for the happy room. Lunch was a picnic by Lake Umayo at 4100mtrs wow what an amazing picturesque place to enjoy lunch. Another 2 hours and we arrived at our hotel in Puno a lakeside city [….]

Well here we are on our way to Canyon del Colca which is the most popular excursion from Arequipa, the paved road winds and climbs its way northeast past the back of El Mistie and Chanchani Mountains to the National Park which covers 360,000 hectares with an average altitude of 3000 metres. We were fortunate to see vicunas, alpacas and [….]