Supermarkets, Peru Style.

I’ve just been to Wong, one of the two big supermarket chains in Lima. Its sort of the Tescos of Peru, big air-conditioned aisles and offers by the tills. However, if you go to the meat freezer you can pick up (for 120 soles, 20 pounds) a whole, frozen, cling-filmed suckling pig. What a great [...]

Part Two of the Retrospective

So my post function hasn’t been working for the past couple of days. This is frustrating, but what makes it more frustrating is that when you go to “help” on Blogger it doesn’t give you an email address; it just directs you to a stupid forum where there are lots of people trying to sell [...]

Retrospective So Far

Well its coming towards the end of my Peruvian adventure, I’ve been in this country a week shy of six months and i leave in a month but from now until the end i dont really travel, just stay in Lima and work a bit because of how skint i am. Its been a really [...]

Leaves

Dead Cactus

Andes

Herbs For Sale

Cusco

Preety Flower

Sacsayhuaman Panorama

Funny Link

clicky here please

Sacsayhuaman

Me Committing Sacrelige

Strange Flower

Inca Crop Laboratory

This is where the Incas tested seeds for what climates suited them best. Each level has its own microclimate, and the whole thing is incredibly sheltered. for an idea of scale look at the rectangle slightly up from centre- the dot in the bottom right hand corner of it is a man.

Me, Machu Piccu and Half of Japan

Quechua Girls

Baby Alpaca! Baby Alpaca!

Landscape

Small Boy

Mach Piccu

Machu Piccu (unedited version)

Well you’ve heard the peachy version, so now il have a good old rant about the stupid system in place before one reaches Machu Piccu. Please bear in mind that this in no way affects how absolutely fantastic the site is, and if anything it actually makes it all feel more worthwhile when you actually [...]

Machu Piccu (edited version)

I went to Machu Piccu yesterday and it was wonderful. its actually as impressive as everyone says. laid across the spine of a huge mountain and with drops of more than 1000ft on 2 sides and a giant peak towering over the far end of the city, it just stops you dead as you climb [...]

A Quick Hello From A Very High Place

Im definitely above the lot of you right now, sitting at a computer in cusco shaking like a leaf because ive been chewing coca nonstop to ward off altitude sickness (although i havent felt it yet) and the effect is roughly the same as an awful lot of very, very strong coffee. so im enjoying [...]

Carabayllo Day 2

Lima, Carabayllo.

Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
The cats won’t get eaten (they just climb into the cage to get out of the sun) but the guinea pigs are stuffed.

This is Juan, the architect who, together with his sister and funded by Christopher and Gill David’s charity “Niños del Tercer Mundo” is building walls like the [...]

Lima, Very Easy to Typo as Liam

This is just a rather short, possibly a little dull update just to say that im in lima safe and sound but absolutely horrified by prices- a taxi from the airport? 40 soles. thats about 4x more expensive than Iquitos. damn. anyway, im here now, positively loving the non-boiling but still sunny weather, and im [...]