Lima - Centro histórico

First day in Peru - busy capital but very well conserved colonial streets
Lima - Casa de la literatura

Beautiful museum in the restored old train station, with cool museographic ideas
Lima - evening

Pacific coastline (cloudy), avocado salad (in its birthplace), punk peruano
Lima - MATE

Photo museum - collection of Mario Testino, peruvian star photographer
Lima - Barranco

Zorritos - Casa Grillo

Tumbles - Manglares

Birds, lots of birds. An island, happy peruvian tourists near the Ecuadorian border.
Tumbes - Criadero de cocodrilos

The last peruvian crocodiles in a crocodile nursery
Tumbes - Cerros de Amotape

Driven to the "bosce seco" (dry woodlands) by Alonso on his motorbike
Cerros de Amotape - a swim in Rio Tumbes

-- near a crocodile trail. At least now I know they're all in the Tumbes nursery.
Zorritos>Piura via Mancora

A small goodbye-langosta in Zorritos, a mind-blowing coconut-milk-ceviche in Mancora, and rice fields on the way
Cajamarca - Atahualpa's city

Where the Spanish conquistadors captured and killed the last Inca, but not before tricking him in filling the "ransom room" once with gold + twice with silver, promising his freedom. So delicate thatLue lisää
Cajamarca - fighting the soroche

A bit of height sickness (soroche) when I arrived in Cajamarca (2700m "only" but maybe the way there from Chiclayo, through a pass at 3200m and a 4am arrival didn't help...) So I put all the chancesLue lisää
Highlands on the way to Celendín

Getting 3 hours closer to Chachapoyas to avoid a 5am start tomorrow. Beautiful highland landscapes already, subtitled Gun's n Roses music videos (no lloras esta noche...), a nice walk in prettyLue lisää
The beautiful Celendín-Chachapoyas road

A beautiful, narrow and slightly rough high-altitude twisting rollercoaster. Climbing from Celendín (2625m) to a 3085m pass, down to the village of Balsas (975m) on the river Maraňón, where I buyLue lisää
Kuélap - the citadel in the clouds

On the top of a mountain at 3100m, the impressive ruins of the capital of the Chachapoyas (the "people of the clouds"). The remains of more than 400 round houses are scattered across the trees and theLue lisää
Gocta waterfalls

A beautiful walk through the forest to the 771m falls. The path goes up and down for two hours that to me feel like five (it's still around 2200m high here!), across a suspended bridge and I get luckyLue lisää
Chachapoyas

A pretty town, though somehow nobody smiles here. There's an exception fortunately, the great little Cafe Fusiones, and they have the best list of beers I've seen in Peru so far. Including a "honeyLue lisää
Fiestas de Lámud - by night

I follow the advice of Milagro whom I had met on the road to Chachapoyas, and head to this little village in another valley to attend their "Fiestas patronales", the celebration of the local saint, elLue lisää
Fiestas de Lámud - Hatun Luya 1

The yearly "Hatun Luya", a parade of delegations from the whole Luya region showing their local traditions, dances, costumes... It's so pretty I can't stick to 6 pictures (the app doesn't let me postLue lisää
Fiestas de Lámud - Hatun Luya 2

Fiestas de Lámud - Hatun Luya 3

Tarapoto - Laguna azul

First day in the jungle: a trip to (and a swim in) the "blue lagoon" and a plate of picura, the Amazonian rodent.
Tarapoto - Lamas

A town split in two: the Quechua indigenous on the lower plateau and the mestizo people on the upper part of town - near the bizarre castle built by an Italian wgi decided to move here. The Oro VerdeLue lisää
Tarapoto - the food the drinks the party

As everywhere else in Peru, I would have needed to stay a whole week to taste it all.