Lake Titicaca and Puno
A lake of superlatives, Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world at 3,812m above sea level, and it’s 8,300 square km size makes it the largest in…
Urban sketching – 2018
Despite being one of my favourite travel pastimes, and travelling more in 2018 than I’ve ever done before, I only found time for 24 sketches this year, a third in…
Machu Picchu
Deservedly one of the most iconic sights in the world, Machu Picchu is a quite incredible place, if not necessarily an amazing experience to visit thanks to it’s understandable popularity.…
Inca Quarry Trail
A far less busy alternative to the Inca Trail, the Quarry Trail is a 26km, two and a half day walk that is effectively a loop from Ollantaytambo, a popular…
The Sacred Valley
The Sacred Valley region around Cusco was probably my favourite area visited on my trip to Peru, spending several days visiting some of the many fascinating places along the valley.…
Most and least popular posts of 2018
I published 167 posts on this blog in 2018, just over three a week, mainly covering my travels in New Zealand and overseas plus a few randoms. As usual travel…
Cusco
The centre of the world for the Inca, Cusco is a now a lively combination of Inca, Spanish colonial, and modern clay brick and tile buildings filling the valley, and…
Amazon rainforest
Unknown to me until I visited but Peru has the fourth largest area of tropical forest in the world after Brazil, Congo and Indonesia. About 60% of Peru is in…
Lima
An intriguing city of contrasts, Peru’s capital Lima is well worth spending a couple of days to explore, if probably little more. Coastal but arid, it has wealthy areas like…
Things I learnt about Pakistan
A little visited and fascinating place, Pakistan is so much more than what the media portray (e.g. terrorism, Bin Laden, nuclear stand off with India). It is home to some…