I only stayed in Macapa for a couple of hours before I headed for the border to French Guiana. Just as in Sartarem, the onwards ticket was more expensive than my wallett could manage. Luckily they knocked a couple of reales of the ticket and I found myself on the 10-hour journey towards the border, Oipaque. The road was horrible and the rain even worse. This terrific combination resulted in the bus-ride taking 26 hours, instead of 10.. At one point I actual...

The 60-something hour transit from Cusco - Yurimaguas didn´t demoralize any us and we dove straight in to the, according to Lonely Planet, hot, humid, crowded and uncomfortable ride through the Amazonian rainforest and to the Atlantic coast. First stop Iquitos, Peru. As soon as our Mototaxi appeared in sight for the seamen in the harbour a couple of them jumped right off their seats and started sprinting towards us. Luckily, we had experienced this once be...

Hola amigos y parientes!After 3 nights and days on different busses we are currently in Yurimaguas, Peru. We started our travellings from Cusco on thursday night with a 22hour bus journey to Lima. Arrived friday night, got some food at some street kitchen and took another night bus to Trujillo. Arrived there saturday morning, 10 hours later. Ate breakfast at café Buenos Aires)muy bueno) and took a taxi out to the ruins of Chan Chan. It was a city of the Chimu pe...

We had two great weeks in Arequipa, with the amazing Colca Canyon and our trips to Misti and Chachani as the definite highlights, but it was eventually time to move on. Following the Gringo-trail north to Cusco and the lost city of the Inca-empire; Macchu Picchu. When we in March decided to stop by Galapagos, we also said that we would sacrifice the Inca-trail to Macchu Picchu to make up for the lost money, and do it as cheap as possible. We stepped out of the ...

CHACHANI : Shortly after completing our tour on El Misti we decided that we definately were going to try Chachani too. The opportunity to stand on a mountain 6000meter above the sea level was so real and we booked a tour for monday 2nd of may. Two days were spent in Arequipa and The Scandinavian relaxing, reading, drinking coffee and writing postcards. We booked the tour through Quechua Explorer, a different from the last one. This place was much more prof...