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Lake Titicaca Home stay – First-hand Island Life Experience
No visit to Lake Titicaca would be complete without heading onto the deep blue waters, making a trip of its islands and learning from its many local traditions. During such an experience Encounter Latin Americaers visit several islands before arriving to their local...
Get ready for take off | Flying the Nazca Lines
Discovered entirely by accident in 1927, the Nazca Lines are ancient geoglyphs in the Nazca desert in southern Peru. With the larger ones stretching for several miles, they were designated as Unesco World Heritage Site in 1994. The Nazca Lines are one of the main...
Lima Travel Guide: Museo Larco and other museum highlights
The biggest city in Peru and with an impressive historic and cultural past, it comes as no surprise that Lima is also home to the largest number of museum collections in the country. A huge diversity with exhibitions dedicated to anything from archaeology to modern...
Peru City Guide: Cusco
The largest city in southeastern Peru and also known as Cuzco with a “z”, Cusco was the capital of the Inca empire and today still serves as the point of departure for hiking the Inca Trail and visiting the legendary city of Machu Picchu. Cusco itself however has more...
Peru Travel Guide: The Amazon
Amazonian forests cover almost 60% of Peruvian territory, but are home to only 5% of the population. Traditionally divided between the highland jungle above 3,000 feet and the lowland forests of the Amazon basin, the latter attracts by far the most visitors with the...
Peru Travel Guide: Hiking the Inca Trail
Contrary to popular belief Machu Picchu was not just a lone city on top of the mountains, but the most important center and command post of a complete region in Inca times. There’s no better way to realize this than by hiking along the old road now known as the Inca...
Peru Travel Guide: How to Bring Your Pet to Peru
If you are only thinking about spending a few weeks in Peru, most likely, you'll be able to find someone to take care of your beloved pet. Many people, however, come down to South America for longer periods these days either for work, extended vacation or as part of...
Peru’s Top 5 National Parks
Peru is considered to be among the most diverse countries in the world. With over 1,700 species of birds, for example, it has the one of the world's most varied avian communities. Peru has twelve national parks, eleven national reservations, seven national...
Peru City Guide: Trujillo
Trujillo is by far the biggest city in northwestern Peru and the second largest in the country after Lima with more than 900,000 inhabitants in the larger urban area. The “city of eternal spring” is the economic hub of the north and attracts many visitors each year...
