This post is part of my Peru travel series: Travel stories | Photo gallery
Thankyou for staying with me as I traveled through Peru. The journey started from Miraflores in Lima, moved south to Arequipa, where we saw the mighty Condors and trekked in Colca canyon – the world’s deepest canyon. The travelogue then went to the Bolivian border at Puno, Fertility temple and lake Titicaca – the highest inhabited lake in the world which had the Floating Uros islands and overnight stay at Amantani and Tequile. My Peru travel blog then dived deep into the Sacred Valley, Cusco, amazing Incan sites and finally culminating at Machu Picchu – the lost city of the Incas. Lima was my last city in Peru.
(wow, so many links)
There’s lot left for the next trip – “there’s always a next time” (my favorite quote (and excuse)). The more I traveled in Peru, the more I felt in love with the place. I would ideally give this country 3 months to fully explore 😛 (If wishes were horses birds,… I would fly… lol)
To-do list:
- Spend a fortnight in the rain forest around Iquitos
- Surf the sand dunes at Ica
- Take a plane ride and watch Nazca Lines
- Spend a week trekking in the ranges around Huaraz
- Explore the northern coast bordering Ecuador
- Take a road trip thru Sierra
- Spend more time in Sacred Valley
There’s lots to improve in travel writing. I am thankful for all your comments. I know some people who prefer to comment via email, and many others who read this anonymously. But this time, comeon show me some virtual love, write a comment and let me know how you felt. Thank you very much 🙂
cheers!
Priyank
This post is part of my Peru travel series: Travel stories | Photo gallery
I really liked your blog about Peru, it is a country that I would like to visit one day. I did not imagine it to be that THAT expensive though so that is a surprise. I guess good things do not come cheap either. One of the photos of Lima actually reminded me of New Delhi. The one with the “nallah” or stream in it. I am hoping to read more of your writings in the future you have a very interesting blog and you pay a lot of attention to detail!
Hi Priyank.
Nice conclusion of a wonderful series. I always email but now good to comment on weblog system. Your pictures and little little details make nicely complete the story of travels. You changed really somuch from where you strated writing about places 2-3 years back. Will see you soon and happy journyes.
regards,
Ash
Hi there,
Centuries later, they shall take thy name with great reverence. That famous traveller from India (or will it be Canada) came, saw, came back saw again and wrote a lot.
Further, here is a ton of virtual love.
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this entire series. (Now you need to complete the Israel series)
Keep it up. We await more.
Cheers!!!
Odzer:
Welcome to my website and thanks for your comments 🙂 Peru is expensive yes but we must remember that there is usually a 2-tier economy. The expensive one is for foreign tourists but if you travel local, its very cheap (still expensive than India) 🙂
Aishu:
If you can feel the change than that’s great 🙂 I hope to improve my travel writing by making you guys read more… lol!
Mavin:
I’m flattered! But this is really just a beginning. People usually travel far and wide and deep all over the world and even if I can’t do it, it’s worth a shot. Thanks so much for the virtual love. I assure you that Isreal series will be completed before I leave on next vacation, which is soon 😉
Priyank,
I’ve been an ardent follower of your Peru Travel Blog and have enjoyed your posts. Thank you for an interesting and informative series with lovely pictures. *hug*
Hey Priyank, if comes to travel blog, yours is the best. You are very detailed, and I am not just talking about the Peru. The connection starts because of Toronto, lol. And I will never forget your – in the middle of nowhere, lol, I don’t know how you do it. Great job, Anna 🙂
that was an excellent trip man. thanks for taking us with you. i especially loved the photos
Trip reports n pics were amazing 🙂
I want to know how much you saved to travel all over. So that even I can start saving 😉
Cellu:
Thanks so much, I always look forward to your visits here!
Anna:
Cheers Anna, that’s a big compliment! How I do it? lol.. just as you photograph bugs and birds while raising a baby – I don’t know how YOU do it 😉
Matt:
Great to know! Thanks for accompanying me bro!
Manasa:
Thank you!
How much I save – umm… just enough to have a roof over my head and two meals a day. Rest all is to be spent 🙂
It’s been quite a ride!!
Nicely done,learned a lot here, you have some of the finest photos I’ve seen anywhere.
Bob:
You’ve stayed with this since the very beginning. Thanks my friend 🙂
Priyank
Your virtual tour of Peru has literally taken me there…what I really likes abt the posts is your style of detailing and still sounding so casual and fusing humour ..
Luck:
cheers! I’m always getting inspired from your writings!
🙂 lots of virtual love, Its been a great journey from within, thx, Puku. U make people wonder, notice beauty amidst the common, most importantly, u inspire longing which drives us to do wht we do. Many writers wd gve a lot to achieve that, right? Enjoy ur trip to Russia, send your pictures.
Hi Trisha:
Nice to see more shower of love on this older post! Russia will be very exciting 🙂 Cheers!
Hi Priyank
I have enjoyed your travelogues and they sort of bring back the adventure spirit in me ( ..lost once i started working)…:)
Could you give me a rough figure about the financial aspects of this tour ( how much you spent..)
keep posting
Prachi
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Hi Priyank from Lima, Peru
I stopped by your travelog, by coincidence I found your site searching information about Puno. I think that your pics and information are better than Lonely Planet hehehehehe.
I went twice to Cusco and I’ve never known about Salinas until now.
Btw, in your post about Miraflores you uploaded a pic of a “police car”. Well, technically it is not a police car. Peruvian police car are worse than that one wich is a “Serenazgo” patrol car. In other words, Serenazgo is the Municipal Police but not the Police itself.
Thank you very much for spreading our culture with such a beautiful pics!
Hi Jules!
Welcome to my blog and thanks so much for commenting here! I enjoyed my stay in Peru a lot – as you can probably tell from my posts!
That’s a Municipal police? Ah, okay I’ll update the picture. There was unfortunately no way to know since I didn’t learn Spanish…. 🙁 But now I am!
Cheers!
Hi Priyank,
Your travelogue is a repository of information and ‘budget’ tips. Exactly the stuff I was looking for. Visiting Peru has been on my ‘Bucket List’ for about 2 years now. Given the current state of affairs, I have a gut feeling, that I can make it sometime in the middle of next year. Its been a long wait, after reading your posts I am sure that ‘sabar ka phal mitha hi hoga’.
Your pictures are absolutely wonderful and make we want to visit Peru even more right now. And just want to know, how important is it to know Spanish to manage out there? And also if possible could you throw some light on the level of expertise in Spanish (few greetings to small sentences to a master speaker) by which we can hope to have a not too inconvenient time out there??
Keep posting these wonderful stuff.
– Sudipta
Hello Sudipta,
Welcome to my website and thanks very much for comments. I am sure that you will have a fantastic trip to Peru, it’s a very beautiful destination but sadly I could only explore a part of it.
When I went to Peru 4.5 years ago, I spoke no Spanish at all, I mean not even ‘hi, my name is Priyank’ and yet I managed to get by fine because I depended heavily on a guidebook. On subsequent trips to Latin America though (MX, EC) I studied Spanish good enough to strike up conversations with random strangers. In my opinion, learning a local language certainly gives you more from a trip. Spanish is easy to learn as well. 🙂
Good luck and let me know if you have any questions.