Add These To Your Route! Having spent 6 whole months on the road travelling through South America, visiting Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador, we thought we’d share with you our 25…
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Sector 4 – The Final Chapter Of Our South America Journey… Well we’ve made it home! After 189 days, clocking up 35,000 kilometres on the truck, having explored, hiked, danced and eaten our way…
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Home To Ancient Cultures… Straddling the border between Peru and Bolivia, Lake Titicaca, a gigantic, shimmering inland sea covering 8,500 square kilometres, is the highest navigable lake in the world, averaging 3,810 metres above…
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Sacred City Of The Incas… Set high in the mountains above the fast-flowing Rio Urubamba, Machu Picchu is undoubtedly Peru’s most visited attraction and South America’s best known archaeological site. With its stunning location…
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Why Choose The Lares Trek? When visiting Peru, undoubtedly at the top of every traveller’s list is the ‘lost’ Inca city of Machu Picchu. Whilst most tourists opt to reach the city by trekking…
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A Must Do Multi-Day Hike! Famous for its outstanding beauty and proximity for seeing the Andean condor, the Colca Valley in Peru offers some fantastic hiking opportunities, the most popular of which being a…
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Life In A Rural Community… As well as being an impressive Inca archaeological site, the village of Raqchi, in the Cusco region of Peru, presents an insight into life in a rural community by…
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High Up In The Peruvian Andes! The start of ‘Sector 4’ on our 6 month overland trip through South America began with our return to Peru. With its lush green valleys and mountains of…
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Continuing On Our Epic South American Journey… If you have read our previous round-up ’38 Days Overland In Brazil’, you’ll be aware that ‘Sector 2’ came to an abrupt end with our route north…
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Cusco Is More Than Just An Overnight Stop Off… Cusco, Peru’s ‘gringo capital’ is top of the list for many travellers heading to their bucket list destination Machu Picchu, the ‘lost’ city of the…
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Not Just The Legacy Of The Incas… As South America’s third largest country, Peru was the next stop on our epic 27 week overland journey as we put Ithaca through her paces making our…
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A Journey Through South America… This week we set off on our 27-week overland tour of South America. For the entire journey, 187 days, 9 countries and 36,000 kilometres, we will be travelling in…