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All booked and confirmed! 16/04 - 07/05 we are travelling to Peru and a bit of Bolivia! Yeeeah! Flights booked and all confirmed, it was the most expensive flight I ever paid for, but it worth every penny! Flying from London through Miami and landing in Lima. A three weeks journey that will end up in La Paz, Bolivia. In the process of fixing an itinerary, it is almost decided and we will also leave some to find out there..
After staying few days in Lima we will move towards the south coast to the cities of Pisco and Ica. The plan says to experience sandboarding on some massive sand dunes just off the Pacific ocean. They say it is not as quick as snowboarding but certainly worth a try! From there, we will head to the city of Ayacucho, it will be the Holy Week and pilgrims arrive from all over the country. There are big festivities, lots of colours and lights and of course catholic colonial churches. Using another bus we will reach Cusco high up in the Andes. From there we want to get into the jungle, to the Parque Nacional Manu. Roads are very basic, so we may trek, raft, or even fly on light planes to move around.. On the way back, we think to trek to Machu Picchu, an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the new seven wonders of the world. It will be majestic..
All booked and confirmed! 16/04 - 07/05 we are travelling to Peru and a bit of Bolivia! Yeeeah! Flights booked and all confirmed, it was the most expensive flight I ever paid for, but it worth every penny! Flying from London through Miami and landing in Lima. A three weeks journey that will end up in La Paz, Bolivia. In the process of fixing an itinerary, it is almost decided and we will also leave some to find out there..
After staying few days in Lima we will move towards the south coast to the cities of Pisco and Ica. The plan says to experience sandboarding on some massive sand dunes just off the Pacific ocean. They say it is not as quick as snowboarding but certainly worth a try! From there, we will head to the city of Ayacucho, it will be the Holy Week and pilgrims arrive from all over the country. There are big festivities, lots of colours and lights and of course catholic colonial churches. Using another bus we will reach Cusco high up in the Andes. From there we want to get into the jungle, to the Parque Nacional Manu. Roads are very basic, so we may trek, raft, or even fly on light planes to move around.. On the way back, we think to trek to Machu Picchu, an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the new seven wonders of the world. It will be majestic..
Machu Picchu_The Temple of the Sun
However, there will be so much more than Machu Pichu. After exploring the Incas sacred valley we will take the Andean train to Juliaca and Puno. We will visit lake Titicaca and maybe take boat rides to the lake islands. Few days around and then we'll enter Bolivia from either Cobacabana or Desaguaderos. It will be amazing! I wanted to trek Colca canyon and the colonial city of Arequipa but that will make the trip going back and forth and the buses take ages to arrive to their destinations. I am confident we have a good plan and will do and see what one must see when travelling that region. A Gmap of the locations we will most likely visit is created at the link below
Any of you been there, done that, please come in contact for some tips, some dos and donts! I have done some research but taking info by someone been there, it's definitely a plus!
May the force be with you!
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Nektarios~
2 comments:
I loved Machu Picchu, I was there on Jan 1th 2005! I spent 5 weeks in Bolivia aswell, I have family there. Copacabana is great.
Spent NYE in Cusco?! Ouah nice experience! Good to hear you loved it! I wish I could stay longer in Bolivia. Flight back is from La Paz so we will be travelling towards there. After Copacabana, La Paz way, don't know much what is going on. Seen photos, Titicaca looks great! I'm curious, will it be comparable to Yamdrok Tso in Tibet? :) Will find out...
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