If you haven’t read Part 1 of our trip to the Peruvian Amazon, you can read it here. Day 4 – Exploring Deep In The Jungle Cocha Salvador Because the rivers in the Amazon Rainforest change course regularly, they can leave behind big oxbow lakes like Cocha Salvador. So you get animals that prefer the […]
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Welcome To The Jungle – Part 1
Not long after our arrival in Cusco for Inti Raymi (Festival of the Sun) we set off east, down from the Andes and into the lowland jungle of Peru. We were headed for the Manu National Park. A remote part of the Amazon Rainforest which has the highest biodiversity in the world. It’s so remote […]
Lake Titicaca: The Spiritual Centre of the Andes
Heading north from our adventures in La Paz we came to Lake Titicaca. This was and still is an important spiritual centre for people from the Andes. It’s where the sun and moon came from in the Andean creation legend, and where the spirits of the dead go. Tiwanaku Tiwanaku has some of the earliest […]
Buenos Aires: Not Your Usual Sightseeing City
So after a month in Argentina we finally made it to the most famous city in the country: Buenos Aires. It’s not like your usual sightseeing city since it doesn’t have that many famous landmarks, but it is a very interesting place to explore. Recoleta Buenos Aires is different from most Latin American cities because […]
Moonscapes and Malbec
After all our hiking in Patagonia we thought we should take a break and enjoy the wine region of Mendoza and check out the moonscapes and rock formations in the area nearby. Mendoza Mendoza produces most of Argentina’s wine, and Malbec is the most popular variety. It was actually surprisingly hard to find a wine […]
