Riding a stolen bolsa wood raft down the river

July 4th 2010
The past few days here have been incredibly busy. They have been a lot of fun, but non-stop. We spent 4 days in the Manu National Park and then a day climbing Machu Picchu. Manu National Park is just a little ways northeast of Cuzco and is a small part of Peru's slice of the Amazon River basin. We were up and on the van on the way to Manu by 6AM on the first day of our jungle adventure. There ... read more

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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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Brian & Hesam

BrianAndHesam

We're college graduates! Hesam and I just finished 4 years of hard work at UCSD and each came out with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering. Hesam got his in Bioengineering and I got mine in Mechanical Engineering. After this accomplishment, we figured that we should reward ourselves with a vacation. While trying to figure out where we wanted to go, the plans just got bigger and bigger and now we've ended up booking flights all the way around the globe. We'll start off in South America, then head over to the Middle East, and then end in Southeast Asia! We have booked flights but basically h... full info

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