Something I hadn’t counted on when signing up for a tour was getting propositioned by the guide who is taking us through Peru to La Paz. On day ONE. Uh-huh. I know it happens with local guides who see fleets of tourists stopping by for a day or two, some…
Bec
Previous lives include graphic designer, trainee chef and favourite child. These days I'm living each day as it comes...otherwise known as giving up my good job, giving up my house to tenants, giving up a lot of material possessions and even giving up my cat. The future includes traveling to South America, Canada, the US and Central America to work out where next...
chocolate, Chan Chan and Moche
/ 28/05/2013Huanchaco is a twenty minute ride out of Trujillo. It’s drab and grey this time of year, the grey waves barely distinguishable from the dull sky that appears to either be heavy fog or pollution, either way it doesn’t sport a wrinkle, a streak, even a blip of blue sky.…
it’s Lima because the Spanish couldn’t pronounce Rima.
/ 28/05/2013Lima and her 10+ million inhabitants showed us how to fit way too many children into a church and catacomb tour and yet supply the worst pillows in the known world in a fairly decent hostel. Our walking tour took in the volunteer bombero brigade with museum worthy pieces to…
penultimate país, Peru
/ 25/05/2013Peru has held a fascination for me for about 17 years. Ever since I heard and saw the white clothes and luxurious long black hair on the dashing men in Walisuma, a traditional Peruvian, folk music band in Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall, I have wanted to see Machu Picchu at…
quieter times in Cuenca
/ 25/05/2013Cuenca is the third largest city in Ecuador for population after Guayaquil and Quito. Surrounded by beautiful mountains and crossed by four rivers it was an important site for the Incas and of course later for the Spanish. The majority of roofs are tiled in shades of light to dark…