Peru Hop – Taking the BEST Lima to Cusco Bus
Travelling from Lima to Cusco on board the Peru Hop bus – the ultimate way for backpackers to see a lot in a short space… Read More »Peru Hop – Taking the BEST Lima to Cusco Bus
Travelling from Lima to Cusco on board the Peru Hop bus – the ultimate way for backpackers to see a lot in a short space… Read More »Peru Hop – Taking the BEST Lima to Cusco Bus
The best way to travel from Lima to Cusco is with Peru’s first hop on hop off bus company, Peru Hop. Great fun, safe, and backpacker friendly…
Although we spent five nights in Lima – a long time by most standards – we didn’t actually do much sightseeing in Peru’s capital. After… Read More »Lima’s Centre and San Francisco Catacombs
Trujillo, a bright a modern city on Peru’s north coast, is famous for ruins. Not only is the impressive adobe city of Chan Chan situated alongside… Read More »Huacas del Sol y de la Luna, Trujillo
Chan Chan in Trujillo was one of my favourite discoveries in Peru. This is an older post, written on my backpacking trip there in 2014… Read More »Chan Chan, Trujillo
Our second day in Chiclayo was spent seeing the two sights that most people come to this dusty coastal town for – the tombs of… Read More »Sipan Tombs and Tucume at Chiclayo
After days in the intense green jungle of Peru’s Amazon, waking up to the north coast was something of a shock. The town of Chiclayo… Read More »Reaching the North Coast: Chiclayo
One of the worst things about travelling slightly off the beaten track is how hard it becomes to work out the where, what, and how… Read More »Right off the Beaten Track – Moyobamba, Peru
From Iquitos – one of the largest cities in the world with no roads leading to it – the only way out of the jungle… Read More »Cataratas de Ahuashiyacu in Tarapoto
After the amazing animal rescue centre on the edge of the Amazon river, I didn’t think our day tour into the jungle outside Iquitos could… Read More »Amazon Jungle Tour in Iquitos – Part Two
Iquitos, a surprisingly large town in the very heart of the Amazon rainforest in Peru, is one of the biggest cities in the world that’s… Read More »Amazon Jungle Tour in Iquitos – Part One
If you want to travel from Colombia to Peru by boat, it can be hard to figure out just how to do this. So I’ve… Read More »How to get from Colombia to Peru by Boat on the Amazon