Peru

For this last post, I am writing about Cajamarca, a beautiful place located in the Andes region in Peru. The city of Cajamarca on its own is a marvelous place to see how the culture has evolved throughout time. You can see the pre-incan influences, the Incan influences, and the Spanish influences. About 20km south…

This small city located at the foothill of the Andes is the entrance to the Peruvian Amazons (an hour-long flight from Lima). The small city itself is not the highlight of the area, the surroundings are. This is the area where you can find farms that grow cocoa, bananas, corn, coffee, fruits, and tobacco. The…

Lima! My place, my childhood home. Lima has its good things but also bad things. I’ll tell you about my favorite places to go. I used to live about 2 hours from the center city, I know that seems kind of far but that’s because of traffic, it would actually be about 45 minutes without…

So when people think about Peru, they think of Cuzco and Machu Picchu. But the thing is that Peru is so diverse and it has so much to offer that it is sometimes sad to just have people know a country for just one tourist attraction. Although, I guess it is good that people at…

Peru is very diverse as you may already have seen in my previous blogs. There’s oceans, desserts, mountains, and rainforests. Together they form beautiful ecosystems that make Peru the wonder it is today. Today, I will be writing about Ancash. This is a mountainous region to the North of Lima that has various tourist spots….

Even though we share this one with Bolivia, it is another Peruvian beauty. Throughout this post I will call Lake Titicaca by its Spanish name Lago Titicaca because I feel that it sounds better like that. This lake is the highest navigable lake in the world since it is up in the Andes mountains. What…

When you think about the jungle, you might think of The Amazon in Brazil, or jungles in Africa. But did you know that part of the Amazon is also in Peru? That is one of the reasons why I love Peru, it’s so diverse; it has beaches, deserts, mountains, and jungles. A really famous city…

I always thought deserts were the worst place on Earth because sand gets all over, it’s dry, and it looks the same everywhere you look. However, 6 years ago my perspective changed completely. My family took a trip to Huacachina, Ica, Peru. I am originally from Peru, so it was a 4-hour car ride south…