Lima - Centro histórico
2 de setembro de 2017, Peru
☁️ 15 °C
First day in Peru - busy capital but very well conserved colonial streets
Lima - Casa de la literatura
2 de setembro de 2017, Peru
⛅ 17 °C
Beautiful museum in the restored old train station, with cool museographic ideas
Lima - evening
2 de setembro de 2017, Peru
☁️ 15 °C
Pacific coastline (cloudy), avocado salad (in its birthplace), punk peruano
Lima - MATE
3 de setembro de 2017, Peru
☁️ 16 °C
Photo museum - collection of Mario Testino, peruvian star photographer
Lima - Barranco
3 de setembro de 2017, Peru
☁️ 16 °C
Zorritos - Casa Grillo
4 de setembro de 2017, Peru
☁️ 23 °C
Tumbles - Manglares
5 de setembro de 2017, Peru
☁️ 23 °C
Birds, lots of birds. An island, happy peruvian tourists near the Ecuadorian border.
Tumbes - Criadero de cocodrilos
5 de setembro de 2017, Peru
☁️ 25 °C
The last peruvian crocodiles in a crocodile nursery
Tumbes - Cerros de Amotape
6 de setembro de 2017, Peru
⛅ 24 °C
Driven to the "bosce seco" (dry woodlands) by Alonso on his motorbike
Cerros de Amotape - a swim in Rio Tumbes
6 de setembro de 2017, Palo de Balza
☁️ 23 °C
-- near a crocodile trail. At least now I know they're all in the Tumbes nursery.
Zorritos>Piura via Mancora
7 de setembro de 2017, Peru
⛅ 31 °C
A small goodbye-langosta in Zorritos, a mind-blowing coconut-milk-ceviche in Mancora, and rice fields on the way
Cajamarca - Atahualpa's city
8 de setembro de 2017, Peru
☀️ 15 °C
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 thatLeia mais
Cajamarca - fighting the soroche
8 de setembro de 2017, Iglesia de San Francisco (Cajamarca)
☀️ 17 °C
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 chancesLeia mais
Highlands on the way to Celendín
8 de setembro de 2017, Peru
☀️ 12 °C
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 prettyLeia mais
The beautiful Celendín-Chachapoyas road
9 de setembro de 2017, Peru
⛅ 16 °C
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 buyLeia mais
Kuélap - the citadel in the clouds
10 de setembro de 2017, Peru
⛅ 30 °C
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 theLeia mais
Gocta waterfalls
11 de setembro de 2017, Peru
🌫 9 °C
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 luckyLeia mais
Chachapoyas
11 de setembro de 2017, Peru
🌫 9 °C
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 "honeyLeia mais
Fiestas de Lámud - by night
12 de setembro de 2017, Peru
🌫 9 °C
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, elLeia mais
Fiestas de Lámud - Hatun Luya 1
13 de setembro de 2017, Quebrada Gache
⛅ 17 °C
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 postLeia mais
Fiestas de Lámud - Hatun Luya 2
13 de setembro de 2017, Quebrada Gache
⛅ 17 °C
Fiestas de Lámud - Hatun Luya 3
13 de setembro de 2017, Quebrada Gache
⛅ 17 °C
Tarapoto - Laguna azul
14 de setembro de 2017, Peru
⛅ 28 °C
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
15 de setembro de 2017, Peru
⛅ 20 °C
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 VerdeLeia mais
Tarapoto - the food the drinks the party
15 de setembro de 2017, Peru
🌙 21 °C
As everywhere else in Peru, I would have needed to stay a whole week to taste it all.