Archive | October, 2009

‘Chill out’ Margarita

We took an early flight out of Gran Roque to the Island of Margarita. The island is the country’s main Caribbean holiday destination, larger than Los Roque, is about 40km off the coast on Venezuela, where the Andes meet the Caribbean, and a much larger island than we thought. It is popular with both Venezuelans […]

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Time for a holiday!

We have left the Refugio very early, again, and have headed downstream by boat back to Puerto Maldonado. We are about to start a tortuous journey that will take us north to the Venezuelan coastline. Our itinerary takes us from Puerto Maldonado to Los Roques via Cusco, Lima, Bogota and Caracas. It is a day of […]

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Tarzan and Jane in the jungle

Today we are in the Peruvian Jungle for 4 days. We arrive in Puerto Maldonado by plane from Cusco and the first impression as we step off the aircraft is that we are on holiday. The air temperature is 30c+ and the humidity is very high – just like being in the Maldives. We get taken […]

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The classic Inca trail

The Classic 4 day Inca Trek covers about 50Km and ends at Machu Picchu, the largest and best preserved ruin of an Inca settlement. For Centuries it was buried deep in the high Jungle (at 2,472m/8,000ft) until it was rediscovered by an academic from Yale named Hiram Bingham in 1911. He took 60 boxes of […]

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Cusco, the centre of the Inca empire

In Cusco, we billeted ourselves at an extremely expensive hotel, Rumi Punku, that I had selected and, for which, I was duly berated. $90 per night was pushing the boat out rather too much but the other alternative, The Walk on Inn at $30 per night seemed to be a bit too much like being […]

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Gateway to the islands of Titicaca

We arrived by bus into Puno on Sunday evening and settled into our Hotel, Plaza Major. It is a soulless place and seen better days but the room was a good size with a very large bed and plenty of hot water. Puno itself is not a place to take to your bosom. I did […]

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Copacabana — it’s not Brazil

Whether we are tired out of cities, or just tired out of Bolivia we’re not sure but we left La Paz to retire for the weekend on the shores of Lake Titicaca at a small town called Copacabana. Lake Titicaca is two lakes joined by the Straits of Tiquina and has several small islands that […]

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