Stargazing the Southern Hemisphere was one of the activities we just had to try, and so we did some in Cusco for the first time in the planetarium. The shuttle took us there and we all went in the planet room to analyse a projection on the ceiling. Julio, the fun astrophysicist leading our group, […]
Following the tracks of Pachacútec to Machu Picchu
Just getting to Machu Picchu is a nearly 3 day affair. Fredy, our driver from Cabanaconde, in his snazzy Suzuki model from the 70s takes us the “short” route, straight up the mountain passes instead of the paved detour. Thus we have a most amazing scenery, sputtering up the steep passes hitting nearly 5000m altitude […]
Down (and up) the world’s 3rd deepest canyon – Cañon del Colca
Home to the largest flying bird in the world, the Condor, and measuring 3,270m or 4,160 m deep depending on who you ask and how you measure, the Colca Canyon is becoming a more and more popular destination in Southern Peru. We read so many raving reviews about it that we decided to scrap some […]
Arequipa: Peru’s beautiful white city
After almost missing our connection in Lima to Arequipa late on Monday, Sept 9th, we arrive around 10pm in our cute little hotel (Casona de Asia) in the heart of the city. We skip dinner and quickly crawl into bed. At 5:30am we suddenly hear – right in front of our window – a loud, […]
Epicurean heaven in Lima
According to pretty much every travel and gourmet magazine, Lima is the culinary capital of the world. Well, we can only second that and more. 2 days, 7 meals and they were ALL above expectations. Granted, we ate two nights in what are known as amongst the top 5 within the world and which would […]
Guatemala – a resumé
No question, we will be back! We took Guatemala more as a tag along since we were “in the area” with Costa Rica but finally, this turned into a much bigger “coup de coeur” than Costa. Maybe it comes down, as so often, to expectations. Much better to exceed expectations than to meet them, after […]
Les P’tits Gastronomes in….Guatemala
During our nearly two weeks in Guatemala we’ve been spoiled with lots of fabulous meals. Antigua Samsara: Our first breakfast in Antigua: delicious!!! Quiltro: Mama and Papa took the 7 course tasting menu which included Shrimp, roasted pineapple, black corn and chorizo mayonnaise with fruit, Green wine marinated Mamón Chino, Zucchini with roasted watermelon […]
Amazing Antigua
Antigua is such a pretty, charming place that we felt it deserves its own little post. Everyone raves about this town, and we know why. It is super pretty with lovely architecture wherever your eye takes you, charming interior designs that are often very creative, usually colourful and always tasteful and we had really great […]
Ready for Iron(wo)man
Now we’ve been in Central America for over a month and we’ve had black beans every single day, if not twice a day. The kids often even asking for 2ndor 3rdhelpings. I figure that between all those black beans, cilantro and avocado our iron and omega-3 values must be through the roof! So I take […]
Mayans… as soon as I’ve found my binoculars!
It all started with a little bit of rain, wonderful guides, falling off kayaks, and lots of “Cruce de Fauna” (meaning careful! animals can be crossing the street. But not just any animals…) signs… When we landed in Flores and took the shuttle to the hotel, rented a kayak and rowed on the lake, we […]