All: You probably all got some posts from me today about out trip to Peru 4 years ago. Bill and I have told several people that all of the information about our Peru trip is on the blog. I discovered today that I didn’t have the blog when we were in Peru. We did updates, …
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Colca Valley
We have made our journey to Colca! As you could probably tell by the quick update yesterday we are doing some relaxing!! I really enjoyed Arequipa. It was a nice city, other than it is within about two miles as the crow flys from an active volcano. According to our guide the evacuation plan is …
Arequipa
We got up at the crack of dawn to fly to Arequipa. It’s a lovely city between Cusco and the coast. The surrounding area is all desert. It’s pretty bleak! Bill finally got to eat guinea pig! I had grilled alpaca with quinoa. Mine was very good. I didn’t try the guinea pig! From Arequipa, …
Cusco and Machu Picchu
We made it out of Lima to Cusco, which is a very pretty city! I wish we’d had a little more time to spend there. Cusco is an old city built on top of Inca ruins. The streets are narrow and winding and the houses have clay tile roofs. It’s a wealthy city by Latin …
Lima
Bill and I are sitting in the Lima airport waiting to fly to Cusco. We had a pretty good visit to Lima, but we’re ready to see something else. Lima is an interesting place. It’s nicer than San Jose CR, but definitely not a place where we’d want to live! It’s a big city with …
Rainy Last Day
I was hoping to have an exciting post for our last day, but no luck. It has rained all day long. It’s good that we didn’t come a week later because it’s supposed to rain all this week too and probably for the next few months. I’ve been in Costa Rica at the beginning of …
Mixed Results for Night Snorkeling
I got to go night snorkeling last night and it was one of the best snorkel trips I’ve done! We saw so many animals. There were 2 octopuses – one was bright blue and turned a molted shade of bluish-brown while we were watching. The other was just a baby and it only had it’s …
Seahorses
Bill finally got to go diving this morning. The weather looked pretty bad when we got up so we were concerned that he wouldn’t get to go again today. He was really hoping to dive at least once so it’s great that he got to go. He’s almost out of days. I had the morning …
Snorkeling
We finally had a bright, sunny day and reasonably good weather for snorkeling! It took a while for everyone to get snorkel gear and fins at Caveman Snorkel Tours so we left in boats a little before 11am. On the way out out, they gave us some fish and let us hand feed some frigate …
Sharks, Rays and Golf Cart Taxi Tours
We woke up this morning to more rain, and initially our day didn’t look very promising. At about 9am, a hotel employee came to tell us that all of our snorkeling trips had been canceled at least through tomorrow. Bill had been suggesting for a few days that we take a Golf Cart Taxi tour …
Traveling with Emily! 