For The Karikuy blog, Lani Conway explores the vineyards of Ica. She says some people say Peruvian wine is just not that good compared to those of Chile and Argentina. Will wine tasting at several bodegas change her mind?
Category: "Travel and Places"
San Fernando, Marcona, Ica
The bay of San Fernando, located just 70km south east of Nazca on the Pacific coast, is a place of stunning natural desert scenery and is home to a surprising array of animals including some interesting visitors from the Andes mountains.
Lomas de Lúcumo – Green Lima
The Lomas de Lúcumo are a series of green and pleasant hills just minutes from grey Lima.
Lose Yourself in Paucartambo
For The Karikuy blog, Francis Sin describes his unforgettable experience at the annual Virgen del Carmen festival in Paucartambo.
Baños de Miraflores
Back when Miraflores was a small seaside town some way outside Lima, long before the construction of the highway that runs along the foot of the cliffs of the Costa Verde, the well-to-do of Lima would walk down the cobbled street of the Bajada Balta to the beach resort to spend a summer’s afternoon by the sea.
The Caral Figurines
The statuettes of Caral are revealing a great deal about the civilisation that produced them, one of the oldest in the Americas.
Recommended routes – Lima combi travel made ridiculously easy
“I had to find out what was going on. Lima’s often cramped and uncomfortable combis – minivans used as buses – couldn’t possibly be that interesting, could they?”
Teatro Municipal de Lima
Opened in 1920 with ownership then transferred to the city in 1929, the Municipal Theatre was considered among the best on the continent. Suffering complete destruction in a fire that left only a shell in 1998, long delayed restoration has finally been completed with the re-inauguration taking place on the 11th of October 2010.
Me vs. The Pastoruri Glacier
For The Karikuy Blog, Lani Conway details her struggle to reach the roof of the world.
Machu Picchu reveals new secrets: Inkaraqay
Only ever seen by a few people over the past century, the Inca site of Inkaraqay located on an inaccessible and nearly vertical side of the Huayna Picchu mountain that overlooks Machu Picchu, is only now being revealed to the wider world.
Visit to an ostrich farm
Tom and Maribel visit Ricardo Castañeda’s ostrich farm near Chiclayo – perhaps the start of a booming industry in Peru. Ostrich meat is already considered a premium meat in several Lima restaurants.
An Escape from Lima to the Mountains
Despite still being in the Lima region, the tiny settlement of Huancaya is a world apart from Peru’s cloudy, bustling and noisy capital city.
