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Travis Snelling

Peru

Trip Details

Destination:Peru
Places visited: Lima, Peru
Trujillo, Peru
Chiclayo, Peru
Dec, Peru
Mancora, Peru
Lima, Peru
Cuzco, Peru
Machu Picchu
Lima, Peru
From:Dec 9, 2011
To:Dec 18, 2011
Itinerary/ActivitiesWhat a journey. 10 days in Peru, travelling from north to south and seeing everything from ancient ruins to bustling cities to deserted beaches.


Some highlights:

- El Brujo archaeological site & Lady of Cao museum
- Mancora
- Vichayito & spending the night in a tent on the beach
- The Hemingway Route exploring the north beaches and fishing towns
- Hiram Bingham train to Machu Picchu and plenty of Pisco Sour with the band while they played Guantanamera and Elvis Presley covers in Spanish.
Most memorable part of tripMancora. I'm hooked.
Useful tipsTravel with a smile and be welcome everywhere.
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  • - outside of the hotel Libertador in Peru (Photo by )
  • - Vichayito sunset (Photo by )
  • - Surfers calling it a day in Mancora, Peru (Photo by )
  • - Horseback rides on the beach from $5/30mins in Vichayito (Photo by )
  • - Visited a traditional Peruvian textile production house where all the women came out to greet us and show us what they've made and were working on (Photo by )
  • - This is from the side of a road overlooking the Sacred Valley below. (Photo by )
  • - Church at the Aranwa hotel and wellness retreat in the Sacred Valley, Peru (Photo by )
  • - Peacock wandering around the Aranwa hotel & wellness retreat in the Sacred Valley, Peru (Photo by )
  • - Alpacas at the Aranwa hotel and wellness retreat in the Sacred Valley, Peru (Photo by )
  • - Machu Picchu surrounded by clouds (Photo by )
  • - Llamas roaming around Machu Picchu (Photo by )
  • - Llama eating grass at Machu Picchu (Photo by )
  • - Machu Picchu with a thick cloud cover shrouding it on all sides (Photo by )
  • - Band on board the Hiram Bingham train from Machu Picchu back to Cuzco playing Guantanamera (Photo by )
  • - This man had character. There was a marching band passing behind me at the time and he was dancing to the beat - quickly pausing so I could take his photo. (Photo by )
  • - At first I couldn't find whose baby this was but then saw the mother just a few steps away fetching a toy that had fallen, causing the child to cry. (Photo by )
  • - at a market in Cusco, Peru (Photo by )
  • - old woman at a market in Cusco, Peru (Photo by )
  • - Sunset outside of the Miraflores Park Hotel, Lima, Peru (Photo by )
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  • - farming in the Sacred Valley (Photo by )
  • - Mancora. (Photo by )
  • - the rules at markets are a bit more relaxed. (Photo by )
  • - Lady of Cao. Along the walls you can see the gold artifacts she was buried with. In the middle is the shroud that draped her and, at the back, is the Lady of Cao mummy. (Photo by )
  • - The famous Hotel Bolivar in Lima where John Wayne, Orson Welles and Ernest Hemingway once stayed. (Photo by )
  • - Visited a traditional textile house near Cuzco where the women all work together to produce the high quality knitwear and textiles Peru is known for. It started to hail so we all moved underneath the tin roof covering to wait for it to pass. (Photo by )
  • - Mancora, Peru sunset surfers (Photo by )
  • - Los Organos (Photo by )
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