Beautiful flowers inside a huge convent
On of the town squares at sundown
Location:Arequipa
Wednesday 30 November 2011
Flashback photos
Don't think I even realizes how perfect the shadow was at the time
Beautiful flowers inside a huge convent
On of the town squares at sundown
Beautiful flowers inside a huge convent
On of the town squares at sundown
Reward
Bus
Chachapoyas to chiclayo: 730pm to 530am (felt more like a roller coaster on the mountain roads..)
Chiclayo to Piuria: 6am to 9:30am (complete with 3 hour dubbed Korean war/action movie and bus full of teenage boys)
Piuria to Mancora: 1030am to 230pm (includes stopping to change buses as ours broke down mid way)
Rewards are good.
Location:Mancora
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Today part 2
Hybrid animal carvings- puma snake condor! From around 500AD
And faces!
More awesome views
Peruvian apple (custard apple I believe it is known as)
Not very apple-y but good
Sunset
And very nice coffee.
Adios Chacapoyas, we will miss you. consider us wooed.
And faces!
More awesome views
Peruvian apple (custard apple I believe it is known as)
Not very apple-y but good
Sunset
And very nice coffee.
Adios Chacapoyas, we will miss you. consider us wooed.
Location:Kuelup and chachapoyas
Today part 1
Fossils
Views
Maid of the mist ponchos, I mean gates to keep head shrinking enemies at bay (serious)
Bromeliads for spectacled bears to eat
Circular houses with space for guinea pigs and your mummified ancestors below the floor
Reconstructed houses with incorrectly high roof made by a Canadian
Views
Maid of the mist ponchos, I mean gates to keep head shrinking enemies at bay (serious)
Bromeliads for spectacled bears to eat
Circular houses with space for guinea pigs and your mummified ancestors below the floor
Reconstructed houses with incorrectly high roof made by a Canadian
Location:Kuelup
Monday 28 November 2011
Flashback photos
(photos I took but have not posted but like and want to share)
Look at the flowers in Miraflores, Lima
Ceviche! Hmmmmm not a huge fan.
Sweet potatoes (the orange things) were AMAZING though
A causa: cold mashed potatoes with avocado and tomatoes in the middle... In the shape of a fish!!!!!
The imposing (and strangely empty) national museum.
Look at the flowers in Miraflores, Lima
Ceviche! Hmmmmm not a huge fan.
Sweet potatoes (the orange things) were AMAZING though
A causa: cold mashed potatoes with avocado and tomatoes in the middle... In the shape of a fish!!!!!
The imposing (and strangely empty) national museum.
Location:Lima
Brouhaha
After getting lost in a maze of plastic shoes, Christmas decorations, meat and (new) underwear on our first day at the market: we returned the next day to find the witches section which (ha!) we had heard about.
Success! (Witch in Spanish is bruja- hence the title)
There were piles of herbs, pigs face (the yellow gourd type thing on the left) cactus, a taxidermed monkey, and little vials of tiny shiny things for good luck. No pointy black hats.
We also saw one in La Paz, but that one seemed more tourist driven and this one more sincere.
Also! Super old balcony that is apparently the longest in Peru, potentially South America. It is either 64 or 67m long. (conflicting information) We read about it so we went to see what the brouhaha was all about.
Bizarrely empty building. Impressively long balcony. That is Myrie standing at the end. If you feel like mathing it up, Myrie is 5'4" so you can calculate how long the balcony is and decide for yourself if it is actually impressively long. At the very least, a 400 year old balcony has a somewhat impressive age... As old as some witches?
Success! (Witch in Spanish is bruja- hence the title)
There were piles of herbs, pigs face (the yellow gourd type thing on the left) cactus, a taxidermed monkey, and little vials of tiny shiny things for good luck. No pointy black hats.
We also saw one in La Paz, but that one seemed more tourist driven and this one more sincere.
Also! Super old balcony that is apparently the longest in Peru, potentially South America. It is either 64 or 67m long. (conflicting information) We read about it so we went to see what the brouhaha was all about.
Bizarrely empty building. Impressively long balcony. That is Myrie standing at the end. If you feel like mathing it up, Myrie is 5'4" so you can calculate how long the balcony is and decide for yourself if it is actually impressively long. At the very least, a 400 year old balcony has a somewhat impressive age... As old as some witches?
Location:Chiclayo
A good start
A real delicious cappuccino
Followed by some excellent views
Not bad at all Chacapoyas, you are making up for a very cramped 12 hours on a night bus to get here.
Followed by some excellent views
Not bad at all Chacapoyas, you are making up for a very cramped 12 hours on a night bus to get here.
Location:Chachapoyas
Saturday 26 November 2011
Like work, but awesome
I remember being excited by the idea of a poinsettia tree when I first heard they existed at work. And the. Disappointed when I saw them... But Peru can also play this game.
Poinsettia tree! All you need is no winter. No winter? Ok! (shorts an sandals all day today)
Poinsettia tree! All you need is no winter. No winter? Ok! (shorts an sandals all day today)
Location:Lambayaque
Indian Jones eat your heart out
This museum is full of artifacts that were taken from nearby Sipan. When an archeologist realized that the sudden flux in artifacts arriving in Lima was due to tomb raiders, he took quick action and protected; finding a trove of archeological goodness.
Inside: bones! Gold! Gold in the shape of armor, owls, faces, peanuts (silver ones too) special plates that go over your teeth (because as royalty/gods you can't have something as human as teeth, so you hide them with gold hanging from your nose, or maybe ears?), ducks, spiders, crowns, more faces...beaded collars, clay vases in the shape of people...
No photos inside though. Outside was a garden with traditional crops (corn, quinoa, peanuts, peppers, sweet potatoes, Gourds) yum!
-These glorious things belong in a museum! Where they are.
Inside: bones! Gold! Gold in the shape of armor, owls, faces, peanuts (silver ones too) special plates that go over your teeth (because as royalty/gods you can't have something as human as teeth, so you hide them with gold hanging from your nose, or maybe ears?), ducks, spiders, crowns, more faces...beaded collars, clay vases in the shape of people...
No photos inside though. Outside was a garden with traditional crops (corn, quinoa, peanuts, peppers, sweet potatoes, Gourds) yum!
-These glorious things belong in a museum! Where they are.
Location:Lambayaque
Peruvian Coffee
Even if there is Espresso or cappuccino on the menu, chances are you will be getting this instead. Hot water, UHT milk/cream, and a shot of cold super condensed instant coffee.
My caffeine addicted heart cries tears for REAL coffee.... All exported out.
Comforted by cake.
My caffeine addicted heart cries tears for REAL coffee.... All exported out.
Comforted by cake.
Location:Chicalayo
Thursday 24 November 2011
3 unexpected things
1-I am on a bus with wi fi.
2-Brittany Spears is playing in Lima tonight.
3-97% of my clothes are wet, in a plastic bag, crammed into my backpack because the laundry didn't put them in the dryer until 20 minutes before I had to leave to catch this bus.
Location:Lima en route to Chicalayo
Typical Peruvian food
Inca Kola: it outsells coca cola and pepsi. this photo does not do it's neon yellow colour justice.
Papas Nativas: just one of the many awesome potato varieties
And as we have learned, if it's not packaged and processed it's not worth eating.
Papas Nativas: just one of the many awesome potato varieties
And as we have learned, if it's not packaged and processed it's not worth eating.
Location:Lima
...temptation
I want to buy 10 of these... Instead Myrie and I bought one each.
(mine is the dark one)
This will make that month of winter we have to endure before spring much more bearable.
(mine is the dark one)
This will make that month of winter we have to endure before spring much more bearable.
Location:Miraflores, Lima
Wednesday 23 November 2011
20+ hours
I have spent 4 days hiking to Machu Pucchu, spent 4 days in a jeep with 6 other people driving through Bolivia and now, more than those other instances, after over 20 hours on this bus, I want a shower.
How does one wind up with 20+ hours on a bus?
-Get on a bus at 1:30 pm to leave Chile.
-Arrive 4 hours later at the border, take a shared taxi over into Peru, get on a bus at 7:30pm bound for Lima, Peru.
-Arrive around 5pm.
Things you see:
Chilean desert
"breakfast"
Peruvian desert
-crops growing (cactus, corn, grapes, mystery, chickens)
-endless coastline
-that same painful Juanito movie, along with 5 others, all dubbed.
And tomorrow we get on a bus for the north. This time we splurged on the fancy company. Only 12 hours this time.
How does one wind up with 20+ hours on a bus?
-Get on a bus at 1:30 pm to leave Chile.
-Arrive 4 hours later at the border, take a shared taxi over into Peru, get on a bus at 7:30pm bound for Lima, Peru.
-Arrive around 5pm.
Things you see:
Chilean desert
"breakfast"
Peruvian desert
-crops growing (cactus, corn, grapes, mystery, chickens)
-endless coastline
-that same painful Juanito movie, along with 5 others, all dubbed.
And tomorrow we get on a bus for the north. This time we splurged on the fancy company. Only 12 hours this time.
Location:Tacna to Lima
Tuesday 22 November 2011
Like my loafers?
(former goafers)
A much needed clean after wearing them in the Bolivian desert.
A much needed clean after wearing them in the Bolivian desert.
Location:Iquique, Chile
Monday 21 November 2011
Downright hot in Chile
(mystery birds. Sound like pigs?)
(on the board walk, we'll be having some fun...)
(first sunflower I have seen growing... And a wild mess of nasturtium... Don't eat....too many wild dogs around...)
(warm sand, hot sun, cold ocean. Just put toes in)
Location:Iquique
Wine warmth in Chile
For my birthday Myrie and I went out for a fancy dinner at "Blanco".
Where things were white...like the Anastasias on the table.
Dinner was amazing. Tower of toasted quinoa with mushrooms inside, zucchini, squash, and Lima beans. Oh and a bottle of Chardonnay. We were thinking we would get 2 glasses. We got a bottle.
(thank you Joanne for sponsoring that very nice wine. I drank a glass in your honor.)
(also, Debbie- vegetables! Colourful and delicious!)
And creme brullee for dessert.
I love cracking the sugar on top...so good.
And now after a bus to the beach we wait for a room at 6am. So excited to not be in desert, as excited as a person can be after a night bus at least.
Where things were white...like the Anastasias on the table.
Dinner was amazing. Tower of toasted quinoa with mushrooms inside, zucchini, squash, and Lima beans. Oh and a bottle of Chardonnay. We were thinking we would get 2 glasses. We got a bottle.
(thank you Joanne for sponsoring that very nice wine. I drank a glass in your honor.)
(also, Debbie- vegetables! Colourful and delicious!)
And creme brullee for dessert.
I love cracking the sugar on top...so good.
And now after a bus to the beach we wait for a room at 6am. So excited to not be in desert, as excited as a person can be after a night bus at least.
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