General: Peru

Advantages: Fantastic scenery, peace and tranquility, unique experience
Disadvantages: Very hot, sticky & sweaty. BUGS unlimited!

Having spent most of my time in Peru either driving through desert or climbing the Andes, it is hard to believe that over the brow of those great mountains lays the Amazon basin. It is a fantastic sight from the plane. As far as the eye can see, in all directions and disappearing off to the horizon, is a huge green mass, broken up by a network of enormous meandering rivers, some the colour of chocolate milk and others a deep green/black. Here and ...
...around. These are presumably areas where deforestation has occurred and the trees have been cleared, but thankfully they were few and far between in this protected area. On arrival in Puerto Maldonado the sky was a clear blue, with just a smattering of clouds - it was 1pm and 34 degrees centigrade - and it just kept getting hotter! My guide Patty was there to meet me and we were soon on our way to the boat station, for onward travel to Reserva Amazonica. ... Read review

Advantages: culture, nature, people
Disadvantages: fourteen hours flight

Lima I arrived at night in Lima after 14 hours flight. I took a taxi. On the way to the city center you pass the quonsets in the suburbs of Lima. The city center itself was more European stile. It has large pedestrian zones with large shopping centers Nasca Lines No one knows exactly the background of the famous Nasca-Lines. Some scientists think the Nascas create them for religious reasons, one scientist thinks about big signs for extraterrestrials ...
...plane. The flight lasts one hour and costs about 50 US Dollars. Pisco The next morning I went by bus to Pisco, in order to visit the Islas Ballestas (Galapagos for poor people). You pass these very small rocky Islands by boat and see lions, birds and penguins. The Peruvian coast is a great desert with huge sand dunes. Laguna Huacachinais a picturesque resort near Ica for swimming and relaxing. Arequipa Arequipa is a beautiful Peruvian large city. ... Read review

Advantages: Kindness of the people/ various landscape (all gorgeous)/ very cheap
Disadvantages: must speak spanish if you want to travel a bit/ no organisation at all (don't have the same notion of Time)

Holidays are finishing slowly... leaving behind some very nice memories that i would like to share with you. So "yes", as you might have guessed (thanks to the title!), I had the occasion to travel for two small weeks on the West coast of South America, and more precisely in Peru. I don't really know how to write this opinion... I have many things to say... I'll try not to do something too confusing. First of all, i must tell you what made me do ...
...Dance and Highland Dancing... Basically my dancegroup was invited for a Festival to do some demonstrations in Peru. The advantage of being inviting is that you don't have to pay for accomodation and food (it's so great!!!), but the bad point would be that you need to "work" a bit in exchange... and dancing at that height with the lack of oxygene, it is quite difficult! Now let us talk about Peru... After about a 15hour long journey... (You must ... Read review

Advantages: Hassle free holiday!
Disadvantages: Moved quickly and became quite fatigued

We went to Peru in 2003 with Thomas Cook holidays. It was a package holiday, but given the variety of desitnations available in peru it offered the most hassle free way of gettign around and getting to see everything. Having never been abroad before I found the package hoiday deal most helpful. We got picked up at the house and dropped at heathrow to a waiting tour guide who told us where to go and what to do. This tour guide was then with us through ...
...even when the planes were delayed due to powercuts. Where I might have got stressed out in an airport due to delays and scedules we simply sat back and relaxed and let the guide deal with it all. Most gratifying. The holiday was half board, with only a few days (about 5 out of 17) where we had to find our own food. As for the tour itself I honestly think we covered everything. We started in Lima - which I have to say is a bit of a cess pit and ... Read review

Advantages: friendly people, such a variety in landscape, everything is very cheap!
Disadvantages: lima is always foggy, cant get anywhere without speaking spanish and they never think your arriving untill u get there!

well, after spending 1 month backpacking around northern peru with 19 other people, i guess i'd better tell everyone about it! we got the 15 hour flight from heathrow to lima, and when we arrived we got minibuses to the richest area in lima where we stayed in a nice hostel called san jose in miraflores. after a couple of days in lima (tourist markets, museums, shops and fog) we took an internal flight to tarapoto in the north, which was really ...
...called hostel lilly which had a swimming pool, roof terrace and air conditioning, which was very useful! tarapoto had a few nice, cheap shops, a good jewellry market, a pretty main square, a pizzaria and a karaoke bar and disco! from tarapoto we took an 8 hour bus journey to yurimaguas, through foresty hills. its a very bumpy journey! but there are some great views! especially if your driver drives fast round the bends in the road, which is very ... Read review