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Best Day Trips From Puno
Taquile Island. Photo Courtesy of Dom Crossley via Flickr. Perched on a hill overlooking Lake Titicaca, Puno is a picturesque city conveniently located near the Peru/Bolivia border, making it a popular...
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Barranco, Lima’s Bohemian Beach Town
Barranco, Lima. Photo courtesy of Santi LLobet via Flickr. If you want some reprieve from Lima’s maddening traffic and noise, look no further than the southern neighborhood of Barranco, a place to...
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Meet a Guide: Patricia Valenzuela
Lima fountains at night! As an authorized professional tour guide based in Northern Peru, Patricia Valenzuela offers private, custom-designed tours to some of the country’s richest archaeological...
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Day Trips from Arequipa
Colca Canyon – one of the most popular day trips from Arequipa. Photo courtesy of wallygrom via Flickr. The UNESCO-listed ‘White City’ of Arequipa might not get as much attention as Cuzco and Lima, but...
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Swimming with Pink Dolphins in the Peruvian Amazon
Go swimming with pink dolphins in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo courtesy of lubasi via Flickr. From rainbow-patterned insects scuttling along the rainforest floor to noisy troops of howler monkeys...
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Outdoor activities in Arequipa
Rafting on the Colca River, Arequipa. Photo courtesy of Telping via Flickr. With rugged mountain peaks, gaping river canyons and towering dunes all within a day’s drive, the White City is ideally...
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Horseback Riding in Peru
Horseback riding in Peru. Photo courtesy of KP via Flickr. From the Andean Morochucos (Peruvian cowboys) in their wind-battered ponchos and chullos (alpaca wool hats), to the rodeos, horseback parades...
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Chiclayo, Peru’s Pearl of the North
Medicinal herbs on sale at Chiclayo’s witch markets Equally famous for its long history of witchcraft and its awe-inspiring archaeological sites, and flanked by windswept beaches to the west and vast...
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Great Day Trips From Puno
Uros Islands Puno lies on the Peruvian banks of Lake Titicaca, and while it’s often considered the gateway to Bolivia, there’s a lot more to this particular area of Peru than just being a transit...
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Day Trips From Cusco
Machu Picchu The city of Cusco is one of the most important cities in the country, and had already been an important location for centuries before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. It is...
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