Peru: In Search of Ayahuasca
Featured writer: David Hughes In a small, dark, windowless room sits three men on wooden stools low to the floor. Two of the men are elderly and look to be in poor health, but they welcome me with warm...
View ArticleLake Titicaca
Featured writer: Emma Makepeace - http://emmamakepeace.com/ Peru’s most famous tourist attraction is undoubtedly Machu Picchu and with every reason. It’s stunning. But before I made it to Cuzco for...
View ArticleTrekking towards Selective Memory … an Inca Trail Adventure
Featured writer: Alison Although I’ve never given birth, I’m aware of the phenomenon where post-labour mothers seem to forget the horrendous agony of it all … possibly some kind of evolutionary device...
View ArticleOne flew over the Nazca Lines
Featured writer/photographer: Ania The Nazca Lines, those mysterious shapes scratched in the scorched surface of southern Peru’s desert, are one of the most famous UNESCO-listed destinations in the...
View ArticleNo Pain, No Ga… Wait, Is That An Option?
Featured writer: Tales From the Motherland Note: This is part 2 of our amazing 2.5 week trip to Peru. If you haven’t read part one, go back and do that here. Then, join me as I stagger up the...
View ArticleOn Solid Ground, Way Up High
Featured writer: Susan Butterfly Stone “Confidence.” That was the one word the young Peruvian man beside me said as we started the climb down from Don Alonzo’s casita on the outskirts of Cuzco, late at...
View ArticleMacchu Picchu: The World’s Wonder!
Featured writer: travelwithoutborders Until today, the feeling is still very surreal for me after visiting Machu Picchu. The stunning Incan site is located at least a 20-hour flight away from...
View ArticleThe Huacas in the North of Perù
Last November, 2012, during a long period of work in the Chan Chan archaeological area (Trujillo, Perù), I enjoyed to visit, at the North, some other important archaeological places of the Mochica age....
View Article7 Undeniable, Unexpected (And Sometimes Unfortunate) Travel Truths
One of my bucket list items was to travel long-term through South America. You see, the knowledge that glaciers, mountains, cities that never sleep, hot spice, twisting dance moves, ancient ruins and...
View ArticleBecoming More Australian in Peru
While overseas, I regularly find that people are shocked by my being Australian and not being a pro-surfer. Oddly enough, that I don’t hunt crocodiles, bellow “Crikey!” or ride in a ‘roo’s pouch seems...
View ArticleIncan Heights
Author: Cory Magnus Stumpf The Fissilent There are many tales I could relay of my two weeks in Peru, but all of them combined could never fit within the confines of a single article. Peru is a land...
View ArticleThe Giving Trip
In early January 2007, I boarded an early morning flight from Minneapolis making my way to Ayacucho, Peru. While boarding the flight to the Andean city, a woman asked in broken English where I was...
View ArticleSaluting the Sun God at Machu Picchu
Having just hiked four days through cold and rain, covering 49 kilometres of the Inca Trail from Cuzco through the Andean cloud forest to Machu Picchu, Leah celebrates her arrival at this sacred Inca...
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