Category: Landscapes

Tipon and Urcos

We had intended to spend the weekend in Andahuaylillias which is my favourite church in all of Peru. It is heavily decorated with painted murals but I like the three crosses outside the church which throw their shadow on the church. It is a tiny village to have such an amazing church but was once […]

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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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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 […]

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Condors

  We got up at 3.30 am to catch the four o’clock bus, to see these birds. The bus turned up at 4.15. Then the bus driver forgot to tell us where to get off so we ended up in Copanaconde and had to hang around for an hour to get a bus back to […]

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