Author: Stephen

Valparaiso Funiculars

We arrived in Valparaiso and have a new hobby – riding funiculars! Although it didn’t help that the funiculars start running at 7 when we arrived at 6:30 am and had to climb the...

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Glaciers

This is one of the premium stops down at the southern nether regions of Argentina, and one that we’d flown down specifically to see.  To be clear on why we flew down instead of...

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Taking to the skies

As you may have seen on the twitter feed, we wanted to take to Argentinian skies in a glider (for Stephen) and a parapente (paragliding) flight (for Christina). Unfortunately the tandem glider pilot decided I...

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Jungle Gallery II

We are falling behind again in photos, but I’ve gotten another set of jungle pics uploaded. The post about Instagram will have more recent pics.

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Jungle Gallery I

Here are a few pictures that we were not able to get out of the jungle while we were there. *Edit* Added some more pictures.  

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Latest Images via Instagram

I’d really like to add images more frequently to the blog (there have been complaints….). In an effort to make sure people are kept more up to date, this post will link to a...

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Alpaca Complaints

While we were on one of our long bus trips at our highest point in the mountains (4800m), the bus suddenly stopped next to an alpaca herder with several of his woolly animals and...

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Day One

We´re back from our week long “loop holiday”.  We started in Lima, then went to Ayacucho and Huacavelica by bus, then took a couple of mountain trains to get to Huancayo and back to...

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160 Degrees

So after a couple of busy weeks Christina has wrangled a week off and so we are off into the mountains. Our grand plan is to do a large loop, starting in Ayacucho to...

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Truth in Advertising

Interestingly, Peru has the same addiction to unrealistic advertising that the rest of the world.   Most products, particularly in the malls, are advertised next to large pictures of blue eyed models with their...