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We’ve had the amazing chance to cross a large number of sights and destinations off our travel bucket list over the last four months. Rather than shrinking, however, that bucket list has only grown. For every place you visit while traveling, you’ll hear of three more that you just have to see. Plans have a tendency […]
Since the beginning of the trip, we’ve been attempting to track every expense to get a better picture of where our money is going and if we’re on track to make it last. After each country, we’re planning on posting our resulting budget to give a better idea of how much it actually costs to […]
Titicaca. Get your giggles out now. Nestled in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia, Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world, sitting at just over 12,000 feet above sea level. For hundreds of years before the Incas took over, and continuing on to this day, the Uru people have lived in self-constructed […]
A few hours south of Lima lies the small city of Ica, and just a ten minute taxi ride from Ica is Huacachina, which looks like it sprung right out of a cartoon or fairy tale. Located in the middle of Peru’s southern desert region, Huacachina is a literal desert oasis. A natural freshwater lake […]
Prior to the Spaniards’ arrival to Peru in the 1500’s, the Andean region was host to a multitude of indigenous peoples. The most well-known of these cultures is the Inca civilization, but there were at least a dozen others, including the Nazca, Wari, and Caral. The oldest stretches back as far as the 30th century B.C., and […]
It’s been a while since I posted last; since the Galapagos post almost two weeks have passed. Since then, we’ve worked our way through Ecuador and down into Peru. Rather than post on a few weeks’ delay, I figured I’d attempt to get up-to-date with this “catch-up” post and get better about updating between cocktails on the […]