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	<title>...en Perú - Travel Culture History News &#187; Beyond Peru</title>
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		<title>Peru descends on Peru, Nebraska</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2011/05/05/peru-descends-on-peru-nebraska/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 20:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch as the small town of Peru, in Nebraska in the United States, is turned Peruvian as part of the campaign to launch the new Peru brand.]]></description>
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		<title>The Dakar Rally Heads To Peru</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2011/04/15/the-dakar-rally-heads-to-peru/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ica, Pisco, Nazca Guide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 Dakar Rally is heading to Peru as South America was chosen to host the event for the fourth consecutive time. Peru will play host to the final four stages of the off-road rally race after the drivers have completed the first stages in Argentina and Chile.]]></description>
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		<title>Miguel Grau and the Battle of Angamos</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/10/08/miguel-grau-and-the-battle-of-angamos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[admiral miguel grau]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Known as the Gentleman of the Seas, Admiral Miguel Grau is remembered by friends and enemies alike as not only a great tactician in naval warfare, but also for his chivalry, the like of which had not been seen before or since. He died in combat defending Peru against invading aggressors at the Battle of Angamos on the 8th of October 1879, and is remembered on this day each year with a public holiday.]]></description>
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		<title>Día de la Canción Criolla&#8230; en Londres?? [Featured]</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/11/02/dia-de-la-cancion-criolla-en-londres/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creole Song Day... in London??

Alan Malarkey writes, with photos, from London.]]></description>
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		<title>Argentina: Buenos Aires</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/11/05/argentina-buenos-aires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My long awaited and expensive application for residency has been well on it's way for a while now. When you do receive it, you are asked to leave the country to collect it, making it easier on the immigration system. This way they see a tourist leave and a resident enter - rather than them having to put a function on the system to change the status.

Argentina is a land with a currency at the same value as the Peruvian Nuevo Sol, which means its relatively cheap. The only problem for us was finding the money and waiting for a good offer on a flight. After more than a month waiting to travel it finally happened.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Vilcabamba&#8217;s Rumi Wilco Eco-Lodge</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/07/ecuador-vilcabambas-rumi-wilco-eco-lodge/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/07/ecuador-vilcabambas-rumi-wilco-eco-lodge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It all started as home. After 16 years mostly as a naturalist in the Galápagos islands (one year in the Amazon, two and a half years in the USA studying zoology), Orlando came to Vilcabamba in southern Ecuador, fell in love with the valley, and found his perfect land by the stream. ]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Vilcabamba</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/07/ecuador-vilcabamba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The small town of Vilcabamba is 40 minutes south of Loja by colectivo or 1 hour away by bus. It is nestled between green forested hills in what was once an Inca sacred valley.

Vilcabamba was made famous in the 1960s when doctors announced that it was home to one of the oldest living populations in the world. It was said that people here often lived to well over 100 years old, some as old as 135. It was then that an embarrassing discovery was made - the researchers had been working with the parish records of the patients parents.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Loja</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/07/ecuador-loja/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Loja is Ecuador's most southern major city and base from which to explore the country's green mountains and cloud forests, in villages such as Vilcabamba.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Macará</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/05/ecuador-macara/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The border town has a strangely painted red and yellow cathedral that looks as if it could be a children's toy model. Crossing into Ecuador, the mountains became more green.]]></description>
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		<title>Macará border crossing</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/06/05/macara-border-crossing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've crossed the Peruvian/Ecuadorian border twice at Tumbes (1,2) at it was not a very pleasurable experience. Macará is said to be very different, so when having to cross into Ecuador last week, I decided to try that route.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Race to the border</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/08/ecuador-race-to-the-border/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We left Cuenca mid-afternoon, eager to return to Perú. We needed to arrive at the border and cross it before dark, worrying about what might happen if we were wandering through the Huaquillas border-market at night. There are buses direct to Huaquillas from Cuenca, but if we waited for that bus we'd be crossing the border at sunset at the earliest so we opted for the bus to Machala, a small city less than 2 hours from the frontier. From there we could take a local bus and waste no time at all. It turned out that we were lucky we couldn't take the later direct bus.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Cuenca</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/06/ecuador-cuenca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Ingapirca we returned to El Tambo to take a bus to Cuenca, no more than 2 hours away. As we approached I noticed the city seemed less run-down and dirty than the other cities we had seen so far. We arrived in the late evening, got something to eat and went to sleep.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Ingapirca</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/04/ecuador-ingapirca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cañaris, a strong and proud people, didn't want to submit to the Incas, as many other civilisations had done when the empire was being expanded into what is now Chile/Argentina and Ecuador/Colombia.

When the Inca armies finally did bring the Cañaris and other peoples from what is now Ecuador under their control they incorporated their cities and religious centres into their own. This is what happened to the formally Cañari ruins at Ingapirca, the heart of Cañari territory.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Alien visits the Incas</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/03/ecuador-alien-visits-the-incas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A local woman was walking up the same mountain and confirmed that the Pan-American (a road from Chile to Alaska) was indeed at the top. The walk was arduous but we did make it - and faster than anyone else as they kept to the main path whilst we were led through a short cut. We were finally on the most important road in the Americas where we could flag down a bus to anywhere we wanted. We wandered along this heavily transited highway a while, finding it strangely empty. But before long a bus finally came by. We flagged it down and got on.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: La Nariz del Diablo &#8211; The Devil&#8217;s Nose</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/03/ecuador-la-nariz-del-diablo-the-devils-nose/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/03/ecuador-la-nariz-del-diablo-the-devils-nose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Devil's Nose is part of the rail journey to Sibambe from Riobamba and has been extended to be the name of the entire journey which is now solely for tourists.
There used to be a railway that ran from the northern coast to Ibarra through Otavalo, where we walked along the abandoned rails, on to Quito, then Riobamba to Alausí-Sibambe and finally to Durán near Guayaquil, where we started our journey through Ecuador. It was hundreds of kilometres long.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Riobamba</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/03/ecuador-riobamba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We left Tena the next morning, heading south towards home. Via Puyo we arrived at Riobamba to catch the train to Alausí.
We spent a full day here to allow us to use a local laundry - we only had a small bag and a limited change of clothes each. Riobamba was a nice city - Andean and cold - but with a selection of colonial buildings and two nice plazas.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Ethnotourism &#8211; Meeting the locals</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/03/ecuador-ethnotourism-meeting-the-locals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Later that same day, after lunch and a rest in a hammock, we headed out on a 3 hour walk to a nearby indigenous community.
First we had to cross the River Napo so we could get to the trail through the forest that would lead us there.
After a long walk and a great picture of a butterfly the size of my hand, we arrived in a small village. It's was not as interesting as you might have thought - the buildings were functional not traditional - but we were here to talk to the people and drink their chicha not discuss architecture.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: A morning trek in the Amazon</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/02/03/ecuador-a-morning-trek-in-the-amazon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With our guide that we arranged for in Tena at the last moment and a last minute price, we headed out to an eco-lodge in the forest for the day. From the lodge - a wooden construction perched on a cliff of maybe 80 metres, we had spectacular views looking over the rainforest.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Tena</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/31/ecuador-tena/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enough of the mountains... we had escaped the heat of the coast for here, but now the British climate of the Andes was becoming irritating. Too cold, too cloudy and annoying on-and-off rain. It was time for the Amazon rainforest and the start of our journey home.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Peguche</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/31/ecuador-peguche/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While in Otavalo we decided to take a local bus to one of the nearby towns just to see what was there. We went to Peguche and found some houses, a church, two shops and an artisan's studio.
The area was very green and pleasant, and while taking in the scenery we found the remains of the old railway line that ran through the mountains south to Quito to Riobamba through the Nariz del Diablo and to the coast near Guayaquil.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Otavalo</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/31/ecuador-otavalo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Otavalo is a market town north of Quito and one of the main and most famous artisan markets in the Andes. We arrived on Saturday night, missing the main Saturday morning event. Market towns, however, maintain their markets every day and when we had a walk around the the town on Sunday morning, it was business as usual.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Mitad del Mundo</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/30/ecuador-mitad-del-mundo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[0° latitude - the equator - just north of the city of Quito

We went to see the equator and the monument that sits on it. It was here that the equatorial line was calculated by Frenchman Charles-Marie de la Condamine in 1736. It's actually 150m off the actual equator as measured by modern GPS instruments - themselves often 7-10 meters off.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Quito&#8217;s Pickpockets</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/30/ecuador-quitos-pickpockets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was maybe the first criminal act targeted towards me in all my months in living South America.

Annett and I had left the internet cafe where we had been working on a project, it was perhaps 9 or 10pm and we had found El Rey's Sandwiches, a small sandwich shop that sells $1 hot dogs amongst the dozens of bars and clubs in La Mariscal - a tourists haven in the day and party center for Quiteños and tourists at night.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Quito, the old city</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/29/ecuador-quito-the-old-city/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/29/ecuador-quito-the-old-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We walked from the new city to the old city to save on a $3 taxi ride, it took about 20 minutes. The old city, which spans out around the Plaza de la Independencia has buildings dating back hundreds of years. West of this plaza is another, Plaza de San Francisco that contains the Presidential Palace.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Quito, the new city</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/19/ecuador-quito-the-new-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spent the first day in Quito using the local internet cafe for work purposes and not leaving the new city. Quito is said to be a city of two cities - the colonial old city in the south and the new city sprawling out to the north, not much more than a half century old.
Most of the tourist stuff is in La Mariscal in the new city and thats where we based until we were able to see the rest of the city.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Portoviejo, Manta &#8211; journey to Quito</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/18/ecuador-portoviejo-manta-journey-to-quito/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time on the beach was great, but we decided we needed a break from the intense heat. It was time to get to Quito. We were already this far north so we decided to go by the coastal route rather that head back to Guayaquil again.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Montañita</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/18/ecuador-montanita/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were told that the closest beach to Guayaquil was at Salinas and we made a bit of a mistake heading there. It wasn't one of the famous beaches of Ecuador, but we didn't know that until we arrived there. We did get a good night´s sleep in a decent hotel and a cooler ocean breeze so it wasn´t all a waste. It also brought us closer to Montañita now only $1 and a couple of hours away. We packed up and headed there.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: Guayaquil</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/18/ecuador-guayaquil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Las Peñas used to be a very poor part of town - across South America the poor always live up on the hills. It has now been restored and set up as a tourist attraction, and the locals have set up a variety of shops, cafes, bars and restaurants. We were very unlucky on beginning our 444 step climb to the lighthouse at the top. It was already 32c, but cloudy. From around step 50 the strong sun appeared from behind the clouds to torture us. I am sweating just thinking about it.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador: To the border&#8230; and beyond</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/01/18/ecuador-to-the-border-and-beyond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The journey was as expected - 18 hours from Lima, passing the famed and inviting beaches of Mancora, Punta Sal and Zorritos to arrive in Tumbes. The plan was to arrive here and take a taxi back to Zorritos to stay for a day and a night at the beach - before heading to Ecuador the next day.
But never make plans in Peru - something I know, but tend to forget. ]]></description>
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		<title>Chile to Peru, the journey home</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/20/chile-to-peru-the-journey-home/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/20/chile-to-peru-the-journey-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had taken a bus to Santiago from Lima which made crossing the border simple. On the return however, there was no such bus, at least for a few days anyway.

We were able to take a bus from Iquique to Arica easily and had a good journey. The 4 hours on the bus were interesting as we spent them watching hundreds of tornadoes sweeping through the distant desert. I tried to get them on camera but they just wouldn't turn out. The two photos attached to this entry are the best I could do, and I needed to turn up the contrast to get to see anything, but they still don't give a feeling for how it really looked.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Cerros Pintados</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/19/chile-cerros-pintados/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are over 400 geoglyphs drawn in the sand in the desert in the Reserva Nacional Pampa del Tamarugal depicting animals, humans and geometric patterns.
We arrive to see them as the sun was setting, when the sun wouldn't bleach all the photos white.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: La Tirana</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/19/chile-la-tirana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[La Tirana is a town of dusty streets and adobe houses with a church and a piece of history as its only attractions.

La Tirana is named after an Inca princess Huillac Ñusca. In 1535 Diego de Almagro, a Spanish conquistador, marched south from Cusco to conquer Chile. Only 500 Spaniards where willing to go with him to conquer these lands that they thought would be poor. So Diego de Almagro took with him ten thousand conquered Incas including the Inca princess and an Inca Prince. The party included, unknown to Almagro, a number of highly trained Wilkas (Inca Warriors) from the Inca Royal Army.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Nitrate Ghost Towns</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/19/chile-nitrate-ghost-towns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the highlight of our trip to Chile, other than just being in Chiloé, was visiting the abandoned ghost towns of the nitrate mining era. Just 30 minutes from Iquique are Humberstone and Santa Laura.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Iquique &#8211; heat at last</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/19/chile-iquique-heat-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The northern-most region of Chile is a land of barren rock and the driest desert in the world. One that has no recorded rainfall - ever. This inhospitable region is huge, towns and cities are hundreds of kilometres apart.

The entire region was once Peruvian and Bolivian territory until nitrates were discovered that could be exported at great value - so much value that Chile decided they wanted it and took it in the War of the Pacific, making themselves rich and subjecting Bolivia to poverty and landlocked status. The Chileans, who did not have the expertise to extract the nitrate, called on British and German companies to run the mines. The cities in the region grew when the mining towns were abandoned when the industry collapsed on the German invention of synthetic nitrates during WWI. Herein lays Iquique's history.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Puerto Varas</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/19/chile-puerto-varas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cold Chiloé weather and lack of money prompted us to start the return to the north. To do so we made a stop of in the southern vacation spot of Puerto Varas before taking the bus to Santiago and further still.

Puerto Varas is a tourist haven, thousands of Chileans and Argentinians come here each summer to spend some time on the crystal clear lake under the shadow of two looming volcanoes, Orsorno and Calbuco. We came here because we didn't have the time or the will to visit Pucon in the Andes.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Chonchi in Chiloé</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/19/chile-chonchi-in-chiloe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chonchi was another beautiful old traditional town. It has managed to keep many of its original timber buildings (despite a large fire in 2002). Unfortunately almost all of its palifitos were destroyed in natural disasters. The colourful church is not original, the natural disasters didn't spare it, but it has been restored perfectly.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Achao, Isla Quinchao, in Chiloé</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/19/chile-achao-isla-quinchao-in-chiloe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doing anything touristy at this time of year has proven difficult. Most tour operators on the island seems to be completely closed this time of year, which has made it difficult to see some of the best parts of the island. So trying to see as much as we could by taking public transport, we travelled to the Isla Quinchao, to the town of Achao.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Castro in Chiloé</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/19/chile-castro-in-chiloe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Castro is the third oldest city in Chile, founded in 1567. It is at the end of a fjord that reaches almost 20km into the island of Chiloé. This city has been destroyed again and again by earthquakes and fires and twice by the Dutch. Despite this Castro still retains its character, as these photos show.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Ancud in Chiloé</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/19/chile-ancud-in-chiloe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ancud was founded in 1769 as a Spanish stronghold in the region, and after Peruvian independence in 1824 it was the Spanish Crown's last possession in all of South America. The bay is surrounded by forts like the one you can see in the images attached. Spanish Ancud was able to fight off one Free-Chilean attack, but cold and demoralised fled in the face of a second.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Puerto Montt</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/18/chile-puerto-montt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We arrived to this city in the late evening in the dark and were shocked at how dirty and run-down the city was in comparison to what we had seen so far. We hoped that by daylight the place would look at least a little better.
In the morning we awoke to a city of fog, cold, run-down buildings, graffiti, stray dogs, homelessness and filth.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Valdivia</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/18/chile-valdivia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valdivia, being hundreds of miles south of Santiago and Valparaíso - in this country of unimaginable distances, takes over 10 hours to get to by bus. For this reason we took an overnight bus, which also saved on a hotel room. We were in for a shock upon disembarking the overheated night bus at 7am. Within seconds we were scrambling through our bags for extra fleeces and hoping we would be able to find a hot cup of tea quickly.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Viña del Mar</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/07/chile-vina-del-mar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 04:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a more modern town that sits on the edge of Valparaiso. Normally it is visited for its beaches, but we are here in the winter and it is a little too cold for that. The town has more hotels, restaurants and bars which is its over purpose.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Valparaiso &#8211; Down Below</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/07/chile-valparaiso-down-below/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 04:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here you really feel like you could be in Victorian England, the streets and buildings date from around that time and are lined with telegraph wires and power lines for the bus-trams.
The port is still a working port and alot of cargo destined for this region of Chile arrives here.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Valparaiso &#8211; Up Above</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/07/chile-valparaiso-up-above/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We arrived in Valparaiso and went straight to Cerro Concepción to our hotel.
This city is composed of two parts, the sea-level ocean front and the cerros behind, where houses are delicately perched and special ascensores are in place to take you up to the streets above, which would otherwise be a near-vertical climb to get to.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Santiago&#8217;s Cerro Santa Lucia</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/07/chile-santiagos-cerro-santa-lucia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Santa Lucia is another high lump of mountain in the middle of the city with good views. It is here where Valdivia founded the city after marking out the streets. It is now a city park.
We spent about a hour climbing it, eating ice cream and admiring the views.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Santiago Centro</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our first stop was the Plaza de Armas where our first sight on ascending from the metro was a dead homeless man having prayers said over him by a city official with a bible. Not at all what I expected - the plaza I mean. Sure it was grand, but it was also incredibly dull. It could have been a plaza in any large city anywhere in the world, it has absolutely nothing distinctive. The cathedral too was nothing in comparison to the ones I had seen in Lima. There are dozens of cathedrals in Lima, all of which are better than Santiago´s grandest. Here in the plaza are dozens of Peruvians sitting in the shade hoping some form of work will magically come and find them.
Here though, in the Plaza was were Pedro de Valdivia marked out the new city streets with ropes in 1541 when Santiago was founded. All distances in Chile are measured from here.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Santiago City Streets</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/07/chile-santiago-city-streets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These photos show some of the streets near the Rio Mapocho near Bellavista. It surprised me how like London it was. We even have the same traffic lights and taxi´s are black.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: The Metro system of Santiago</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/07/chile-the-metro-system-of-santiago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The metro system in Santiago shows what a disgrace the London Underground is. The trains and platforms here have air-conditioning. Each platform has several plasma screen TV´s entertaining passengers with music for the no more than 30 seconds they have to wait for their train, which is easy to fit into because they are larger than ours. Fairs are the same for all destinations and less than $1.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: Santiago from Cerro San Cristobal</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/07/chile-santiago-from-cerro-san-cristobal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High above Santiago is the Cerro San Cristobal, a Andean foot-hill that towers over the city from where you can see everything on a clear day. Both our days in Santiago were clear days, so we were quickly lucky to get the best views possible.]]></description>
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		<title>Chile: 2 days 6 hours in a bus</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/09/05/chile-2-days-6-hours-in-a-bus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We arrived in Santiago de Chile after spending a length of time on a bus that I had never before imagined was possible and be honest - it was fine. I spent probably half the time staring out of the window at the bleak desert half asleep and the other half watching the dozen onboard movies.

Caracol turned out to be more of an agency than a bus service and we ended up travelling with the excellent Chilean company Tas-Choapa - it seems all the buses in Chile are excellent.]]></description>
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