Annie10 - Anne Lovell

I grew up in Phoenix, AZ but I just graduated from Bucknell Univeristy in Lewisburg, PA. I love hiking, arts and crafts, reading, exercising, especially swimming and I love traveling and exciting new adventures! After I turned 21 I had one of the best years of my life traveling to Nicaragua for a week in January with the Bucknell Brigade, then in Dunedin, New Zealand studying abroad from February 4- mid June. After that I had a great senior year and now its into the real world! I hope this journal will keep my friends and family up to date on my future adventures in Ecuador and Peru!

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By Annie10
November 25th 2008

Galapagos South America » Ecuador » Galápagos

The Flamingo! our boat for 8 days

In order to get to the Galapagos, we had to take an hour flight to the coastal city of Guayaquil and then another hour flight to the islands. We landed on the second biggest island, Santa Cruz. There we gathered our bags, rented snorkeling equipment and met our tour guide, Alfanso. We also met the rest of our group. There were three couples and one random weird German guy named Hoygar who Amanda had to bunk with since she drew the shortest straw. Unfortunately, the group wasn’t what we had hoped for but everyone was nice. A bus then took us [View Full Entry]

By Annie10
October 8th 2008

Inca Trail South America » Peru » Cusco » Inca Trail

start of the trail

We had to wake up around 6am and we were picked up at our hostel by a bus that took us about 2 hours to a small town in the middle of these huge mountains. There we had lunch and met the other 9 people on our trip and the group was not very outgoing. The group was made up of couples in their mid 30s and then one random british guy and the three of us and I was a little nervous about having a fun time with everyone for the next four days on the trail. However, by the [View Full Entry]

By Annie10
October 1st 2008

Cusco South America » Peru » Cusco » Cusco » Cusco

cusco

After a long trip from Lake Titicaca, we got into Cusco, the second largest city in Peru and checked into the Loki, which is known in town as the backpacker, party hostel. It was the biggest hostel that we had stayed in and our first shared living situation. We were in a bunk room with 7 other people, two guys from New Zealand we immediately got along with and ended up hanging out with them for the majority of the time that we were in Cusco. Later that night Antonio and Rorie checked into our room as well, so it [View Full Entry]

this is the white board in the hostel showing who is staying in what room

pub quiz the first night in the bar in our hostel

By Annie10
September 30th 2008

Araquipa and Colca Canyon South America » Peru » Arequipa » Arequipa

Colca Canyon looking down at the little villages

After a night bus from Nasca we arrived in Arequipa early in the morning and took a taxi to a hostel, which was a renovated mansion in the middle of town. Our room was really nice and not very expensive. We spent the rests of the day exploring and had lunch on a sunny restaurant patio. That day we also signed up to do a two day hike in Colca Canyon. We went to bed early that night because we had to wake up at 2am to catch a bus 5 hours to the Colca Canyon. The bus was miserable though, [View Full Entry]

By Annie10
September 29th 2008

Nasca lines South America » Peru » Ica » Nazca » Nazca Lines

our plane

After riding on a bus about 3 hours we arrived in the afternoon in the small town of Nasca/Nazca. We got off the bus and found a cab to take us to the airport. We had already bought our tickets to fly over the Nasca lines so after waiting for about 2 hours and finding that we were the last people in the airport and the sun was about to set, we started pressuring the tour company and finally they called us out to the tarmac to board our tiny, four person plane. We met our captain who I got to [View Full Entry]

By Annie10
September 28th 2008

Sand boarding in Huacachina South America » Peru » Ica » Huacachina

Huacachina

After traveling in a bus about 6 hours overnight from Lima we arrived in Inca mid morning and took a taxi about 20 minutes to the small desert oasis of Huacachina. We checked into a cute hostel and had breakfast there on the patio overlooking the small lake in the middle of the town. Immediately after we got on our suits and went to lie out on the beach surrounding the lake. Huacachina is like nothing I have ever seen before… the town is made up of solely hostels, restaurants, a small lake with paddle boats and it is completely surrounded [View Full Entry]

By Annie10
September 26th 2008

Cock Fighting Queen- Lima South America » Peru » Lima » Lima » Miraflores

Lima

Originally we were planning on getting in and getting out of Lima, since thats what many people had told me to do- they had said that the city was dirty and dangerous. However, we ended up having one of the best weekends of our entire trip. After a long bus overnight bus ride, we got into Lima and checked into the Flying Dog hostel, which was right in the middle of the one of the nicest districts in Lima, called the Miraflores. We were very tired so we slept until the early afternoon and then went out to explore the city. [View Full Entry]

By Annie10
September 22nd 2008

Trujillo, Huanchaco and Chicama- The longest wave in the world South America » Peru » Trujillo

Huanchaco

After another night bus ride we got to the bus station in Trujillo, the third biggest city in Peru, and we had no idea what we wanted to do. There were some other people in the bus station that we had met while waiting for the bus in Mancora and they seemed to know what they were doing and we joined them in a taxi to the small surf town of Huanchaco, just 20 minutes outside of Trujillo. We checked into this small, cute Swiss owned hostel and had breakfast with the group. Then we all split up and Amanda, Rachel [View Full Entry]

By Annie10
September 17th 2008

Mancora South America » Peru » Piura » Máncora

our terrible room and the mosquito nets that didn't work

We arrived in the small beach town of Mancora at 4am with no place to stay. Fortunately we found a taxi at that time of the morning and he took us to one of the cheapest hostels in the town. After a couple of hours of sleep and being eaten alive by mosquitoes, we wanted to shower, found that there was no water and realized why the place was so inexpensive. We immediately decided to find a new place to stay and on our way out we ran into two other girls from the US traveling north through Peru. We decided [View Full Entry]

By Annie10
September 15th 2008

Riobamba en route to Peru South America » Ecuador » Centre » Riobamba

the beginning of our five hour train ride

After packing up our backpack and putting our other stuff in storage, we moved out of our apartment and hopped on the bus 6 hour bus to Riobamba, the fourth largest city in the center of Ecuador. We got there in the late afternoon and had hopped to go to a soccer game that night, only to find out that it was actually an afternoon game and it was already over. I was extremely disappointed but it turned out to be ok, because we ended up going to a soccer game in Quito at the end our trip. So we check [View Full Entry]

all bundled up- it was cold when we borded the train at 6am

going through the city on the top of the bus

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