July 9, 2008 | 27 Comments

This blog post is part of my Peru travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Trekking in the Colca Canyon| Next post: Puno Exiting Arequipa I came back from the Colca canyon trek and bid adieu to fellow trekkers. I was goddamn exhausted after the trek but considering the paucity of time, I booked [...]...
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July 6, 2008 | 28 Comments

This blog post is part of my Peru travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Andean Condors in Colca| Next post: Arequipa to Puno Start of our trekking. Towards the right side on the picture, you can see another tall mountain. This is on the other side of the valley “[...] Colca Canyon is [...]...
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June 18, 2008 | 32 Comments

This blog post is part of my Peru travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Arequipa | Next post: Trekking in the Colca Canyon Views of the Colca mountain range At 1 am, we started from Arequipa local bus station and our first destination was the Condor lookout point some 6 hours away. I [...]...
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June 12, 2008 | 24 Comments

This blog post is part of my Peru travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Lima to Arequipa| Next post: Andean Condors in Colca Arequipa is the capital of the Arequipa Region in southern Peru. It is the second most populous city of the country and lies in the Andes mountains, at an altitude [...]...
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June 10, 2008 | 11 Comments

This blog post is part of my Peru travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Miraflores| Next post: Arequipa Lima was too much city’ish and wanted to move to the interiors so I prepared to go to Arequipa (आरेकीपा) and left for the bus station. Arequipa is to the south east of Lima and [...]...
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June 7, 2008 | 22 Comments

This blog post is part of my Peru travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Toronto to Lima| Next post: Lima to Arequipa It’s my first morning in Lima today. I am so excited to wakeup to the fresh salty smells of Lima air. I got up pretty early although I slept late last [...]...
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June 5, 2008 | 7 Comments

This blog post is part of my Peru travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Highlights| Next post: Miraflores The flight last night was a long but entertaining one thanks to my neighbor, i.e. person sitting next to me in the flight. A herbologist (I never met one before) from BC, she was hilarious [...]...
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May 31, 2008 | 27 Comments

This blog post is part of my Peru travelog series. Click here for Index pagePrevious post: Prologue| Next post: Toronto to Lima Here is a quick summary of my trip: My first day was in Miraflores, an uptown district of Lima, the capital of Peru. I was thrilled right from day one, because this whole [...]...
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