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Map of Peru

 

The largest percentage of our trip will be spent in Peru.  Deb lived in Lima for three years as a child, so she is very excited to be returning to this country of her youth for the first time in 25 years.  We will enter Peru at Puno, on the shores of Lake Titicaca.  We are doing the four-day Salkantay trek to Machu Picchu. We meet up with our friends Phillip, Kathleen and Jessica at Machu Picchu, and after absorbing these breathtaking ruins, we'll all return to Cuzco (via Ollantaytambo) for the Inti Raymi festival.  Next we plan to do a four-day Amazon jungle trip out of Cuzco, then it's off to Nazca, Huacachina, and Lima.  After Lima, we will head into the mountians near Huaraz where we will do another trek or two.  Then it's back to the coast to visit ruins at Trujillo & Chiclayo.  We'll cross the border into Ecuador near Piura, after forty glorious days in Peru.

Tuesday
Jul252006

Travel to Trujillo (July 15, 2006)

DateTuesday, July 25, 2006 at 4:05PM

We drove through the Canyon del Pato, which is a spectacular gorge that runs for miles and we passed through 36 tunnels. The scenery was great, and Lincoln ranks it as his favourite drive so far on our trip. At one point we had to stop the bus to remove rocks from a recent landslide, and actually there were still small rocks coming down the hill but luckily none of these made it as far as the road.

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Tuesday
Jul252006

Trujillo & Huanchaco (July 16, 2006)

DateTuesday, July 25, 2006 at 4:17PM

The city of Chan Chan was built in 1300 A.D., and inside the city each of the Chimu kings had their own temple constructed and when the king died they closed up the temple and built another one for the new king.

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Tuesday
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Chiclayo & Sipan (July 17 & 18, 2006)

DateTuesday, July 25, 2006 at 4:20PM

The museum turned out to be one of the best museums that we have ever been to. The tombs of the Moche leader the Lord of Sipan, 1700 years old, were discovered near Chiclayo in 1987 and amazingly enough they had never been looted by grave robbers.

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Tuesday
Jul252006

Last Day in Peru (July 19, 2006)

DateTuesday, July 25, 2006 at 4:30PM

We were sad to be leaving Peru – the people are so friendly, vibrant, and proud of their country and the scenery is so varied – rainforests, cloud forests, deserts, snow-capped mountains with fantastic hiking, deeply carved canyons, rolling hills, beaches, bustling modern cities, fascinating cultural diversity, and fabulous archaeological sites. You name it, Peru has it.

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