Let’s get right to it. Peruvian food is delicious. So I’m going to write about 5 of the best Peruvian food items you should check out. Many years ago I spent three months volunteering with crees in the Amazon Rainforest in Peru. I’ve written a bit about it before – here and here, for example – but…
If I get a ticket from place A to place B from a bus station, I expect the entirety of that journey to be made by bus. So when I bought a bus ticket in Peru from Puno to Cusco, I was expecting to heave my rucksack onto a bus, then curl up in my…
Back in 2009 volunteered with a conservation company in Peru. Or to put it another way, I spent three months living with cockroaches in the Amazon Rainforest. That’s where I lived for three months. No doors, no windows, no electricity, no phone lines, no hot water, no McDonald’s just round the corner. The photo shows…
In 2009, I spent three months in the Amazon Rainforest in the Manu National Park in Peru. At the end of the three months volunteering, it was a 10-hour journey back to Cusco, the closest major city. The transition from leaving the jungle to rejoining civilized society is a stranger sensation than when you find…