Peru travel stories

Volcanoes and Valleys

After arriving in Arequipa a city of 1 million we found ourselves a nice hotel for around 8 pounds a night - fully equipped with Cable TV and excellent shower. First point of call was coffee and bl...

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Into the Unknown

The night sky lit by the full moon before me; I gazed out my bus window at the outline of the Andes mountains. Soon that picture-like view turned to jungle as far as the eye could see. This is the ...

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Empire Under the Sun

Peering through my plane window, I looked out across the Andes Mountains and gave a big grin. I have been thinking about these mountains and climbing up to the ruins of Machu Picchu for the last si...

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Life on the Reeds; and on the Rocks!

Catching my head as it suddenly dropped from exhaustion, I continued counting down the minutes until the arrival of my night bus to the lakeside town of Puno. Before leaving Cusco, I had set up a t...

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El Dorado, hunting the legend - 2002

www.palkiewicz.com Press Agency EFE 28.07.2002 The quest began on June 30, when more than two dozen researchers began combing the wild and unexplored jungle region along the basin of the Madre de...

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