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02 Aug 2009

Pisac

Pisac has a great Sunday market when villagers come down from the Andes to barter and sell their wares and to catch up with the gossip. Despite the many tourists this market has its own charm as it is a traditional market. It is very colourful with the traditional Peruvian weaving and handicrafts on display […]

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02 Aug 2009
- Historic Places
- people
- Peru
- Photography
- Unesco

Ollantaytambo

Ollantaytambo is one of my favourite villages in the Sacred Valley. It is an old Inca site and the walls and the streets of the village are Inca. Many people come here from outlying villages and so it is very normal for people to be wearing the red Ponchos and hats of the Quechua […]

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02 Aug 2009
- Historic Places
- Landscapes
- Nature
- people
- Peru
- Photography

Colca Canyon

We ran the Paro (strike) from Arequipa to Chivay by ignoring it and got to Puno on a Sunday night. The bus avoided the strike by pulling all the curtains and taking the rough back roads to Puno. It was full of hairpin bends and we were in a convoy of at least six […]

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31 Jul 2009

Huanchaco, Trujillo and pre Inca sites

Trujillo and Huanchaco This has got to be one of my favourite trips. I have just had some wonderful days in a small fishing village (Huanchaco) near Trujillo in the north of Peru. The people were lovely and everyone spoke to me. One woman even opened up her shop for me as I needed to […]

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31 Jul 2009

Lake Titicaca

We had a one day window in the middle of a series of strikes and road blocks and decided to high tail it to Puno which is on Lake Titicaca. I was so ill I hardly knew where we were going but you could see all the stones at the side of the road […]