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Cusco and city tour

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

The overnight bus trip from Nazca to Cusco took 15H instead of 12H planned. Luckily, we were in good company :)     Cusco (from Quechua Q’osqo) means belly of the world, as it was at the capital and center of the vast Inca empire, spreading from south of today’s Ecuador to north of Chile and […]

Nazca, Peru

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

We spent about 2 days in Nazca. Mostly doing nothing the first one, to keep this blog up to date, rest a bit (especially since temperature was quite high), and Netta got to try the pool in the first hostel :) On the second day, we found a very nice and cheap hostel to stay […]

Paracas, National Reserve

Friday, January 9th, 2009

From Lima, Francis had organized our arrival in Pisco, next to the Paracas Reserve. It’s important that someone comes fetch you there as the town is rather dodgy by night (we arrived late). We didn’t get much sleep, since tours were already booked and started early in the morning. We have had difficulties to sleep […]

Lima, Peru

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

We stayed 3 days in Lima. We got to see quite a lot in this small amount of time, and experience many aspects of the capital. So Francis, the hostel owner gave us a map in the beginning, where he marked places we should see and the places we should not go into, which was […]

Taking off

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

We took off as planned from Lyon last Saturday. The flight was short since we were only going to Madrid but things got more complicated when we wanted to board the plane for the second leg of the journey. For some reason, Air Iberia had done something wrong when checking us in to the first […]

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