Blogs from Cajamarca, Peru, South America - page 4

Note: Les aléas de notre voyage font qu'il nous est parfois ardu de publier nos pages en temps prévu... Ces deux "dernières pages péruviennes" ont été écrites il y a quelques jours, mais seulement publiées en ce 11 décembre... Alors oui, nous sommes exactement aujourd'hui à notre cinquième mois de voyage!... Alors oui, nous sommes depuis 24 heures maintenant en Équateur!!... Ouf! On ne sait pas quelle est votre perception du temps au Québec, mais de notre côté, on ne voit plus le temps aller! Dans quelques jours, nous en serons déjà à cinq mois (!) de voyage. Quoique nous ayons vu beaucoup de trucs et parcouru beaucoup de distance, nous avons de la misère à croire que dans quelques semaines, nous serons en 2008; que dans quelques jours, il nous restera moins de deux mois ... read more

pucha... y ahora todos andan celebrando el 18, comiendo empanás, sopaipillitas con pebre mmmmmmm... me da pena no tar en Chile pa esta época !!!!!! aparte desde anoche q me he estado sintiendo un poco mal, dolor de guata y de cabeza asi q ahora toy a pura galletita de agua :( pensé en qdarme en cama todo el día pero parece q me voy a animar a ir a ventanillas de Otuzco (son unas tumbas cavadas en a piedra)... mañana iría a Kuntur Wasi asi q ahí actualizo con todas las fotos...... read more

So after our interesting nights sleep, we had a six hour bus ride to Cajamarca so of course by the time we got there all we could do was find a hostal (the owner of which seemed quite surprised we wanted to stay there!) and then go out for ice-cream (anyone see a pattern here?!) at, according to the LP, the best ice-cream in the North of Perú. It was good..but not a patch on Ec.! Decided we were the worst travellers in the world and we never do anything we plan, so hailed a passing mini-bus and headed 8km out of the city to the "Ventanillas de Otuzco". These are pre-Incan structures made up of hundreds of funerary niches built into the hillside. Our charming teeneag guide tried to explain, in Spanish how they ... read more

Cajamarca Before I start this blog I would like to say Merry Christmas to all of you. Today is Christmas and it is very hard to be away from home. I am, however, grateful for the opportunities that have come my way to make this all happen. I miss everybody right now more than ever but hope that you all have great holidays. I wrote this next blog a while ago and right now I am in Cusco, Peru. I wanna give a couple shouts to my Mom, Dave and Tyler. My Mom is holding together the house and family in Lantzville, while my Dad has been nominated for the Hall of Fame in Victoria for racing! A once in a lifetime achievement! My bro is off to Salmon Arm in Feb to start school...I´m comin ... read more

the trip into peru was really cool, rather intense because we took the road less traveled, where people are still amazed by the presence of gringos. we went through alot of military occupied towns, made friends with some millitary guys who made sure we got through, read stories in english to a group of curious children (and a very drunk man) who were trying to learn english and helped them with their homework, and went through alot of really poor POOR cities and towns. Peru seems much poorer than ecuador. i have lots of story but am rather tired and blogged out. today we went up to the most incredible ruins, larger by 114 meters than machu pichu, but much less visited, reason being there is a very intense ride up alot of mountians to get ... read more