Tag: Peru
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![Lake Titicaca [39/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_5608.jpg)
Lake Titicaca [39/50]
The last stop of my two-month Peruvian sojourn was Lake Titicaca, a colossal and very deep lake high-up on a never-ending Andean plateau (the Altiplano). The lake is split between Peru and Bolivia and in case you were wondering, it is where the Sun was born. Lake Titicaca is the spiritual home and birthplace of…
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![Colca Canyon with rum…[38/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_5448.jpg)
Colca Canyon with rum…[38/50]
From the shabby mining town of Mazuko in the Peruvian Amazon, it was a tough two-day ride to bucolic Colca Canyon near Arequipa in Peru’s south. It rained heavily on the first day, but it didn’t seem to matter that much as it was so damn hot. But as I climbed out of the Amazon…
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![Riding the Interocianic highway into the Peruvian Amazon [37/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_54051.jpg)
Riding the Interocianic highway into the Peruvian Amazon [37/50]
The diversity of landscapes and climate in South America is challenging to traverse at times, especially on a small 125cc moto. But South America keeps giving up the gold as does the moto that only seems to scream and splutter and skip a heart beat to tease me when I’m on top of a 4000-metre…
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![The Choquequirao trek: alternative to Machu Picchu [36/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-20150917_0949471.jpg)
The Choquequirao trek: alternative to Machu Picchu [36/50]
The 4-5 day Choquequirao trek begins about 200 Kms north of Cusco near Abancay. Far from a little frolic in the Andean mountains, the trek traverses a broad and deep valley with no less that two back-breaking climbs of about 1500 meters each (one on the way to Choquequirao and one coming back). But the…
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![Cusco, not dangerous enough! [35/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_4856.jpg)
Cusco, not dangerous enough! [35/50]
Some people travel forever on predefined routes (and not just geographically). It’s not that the places they go are necessarily breaking bad, it is just that there are always many more options. The herd goes to Galapagos when Manu is possibly better. The crowd goes to Rio when Puerto Maldonado has far less rabid street…
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![Walk like an Inca [33/50]](https://www.craigbellamy.net/images//wpid-img_4786.jpg)
Walk like an Inca [33/50]
The Incas in the 16th Century controlled an empire of states and bands of indigenous South Americans that stretched from the south of Colombia to just below Santiago in Chile. To connect the empire, they constructed a vast and complex road network, similar to the Romans in Eurasia, but unlike the Romans, the Incas had…