road works in peru

.. and by road works we mean, the grader rips it up, the buses honk their horns and play chicken on the remaining road, and all the villages come and nick the bitument blocks for their new home theatre expansion project

Onto Tourist Mecca Peru

August 20th 2008
Hi all, Nick Here: yes, its time to say goodbye to Bolivia, land of cheap food, cheap thrills, and cheap gastro and enter the tourist wilds of Peru. We took a bus from copacabanna on the shores of lake titicaca through to puno, and with a quick "Amazing Race" style negotiation managed to jump aboard a moving bus to Arequipa within 5 minutes of our arrival. And amazingly without totally bei ... read more

South America » Peru » Arequipa

Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more

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