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 […]
We Have The Machine That Goes Ping
For those of you who don’t know, a couple of weeks ago Pedr had a heart attack while we were exploring the area around Cusco in Peru. Luckily, he is OK now. We are safely back in Australia where he is recovering. It all happened while we were exploring some Inca ruins. Pedr felt a […]
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 […]
La Paz: Hard to Explain and Very Crazy
After our adventuring in Torotoro we were finally off to the pseudo-capital of Bolivia; La Paz. La Paz La Paz is different from Potosi and Sucre because it doesn’t have a lot of old, colonial buildings. It’s a lot more modern and very chaotic. Plenty of cars trying to run you over each time you […]
