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Cusco 3400 meter

by FroeWiCusco, Peru 22. August 201422. September 2014One Comment

Cusco is one of the major spots when visiting Peru, because its within day tour distance to the biggest attraction: Machu Picchu. The so called “lost city” of the Incas. The city is on an altitude of around 3.200m. But Cusco has more to offer than only being a stop over. It was once the Inca empires capital, has beautiful colonial buildings, archaeological sits, massive Inca-built walls on steep and narrow cobblestone streets, plazas and great restaurants. Moreover, we found a massage salon called Ajna. Yarit the owner is half the size of Eva but holy sh** she is strong 😉

Plaza de Armas (next 4 pics)

Balcones Coloniales
Panorama view of Cusco

Inca-built walls on steep and narrow cobblestone streets

Further impressions of Cusco and surrounding
Our great Dragon Fly Hostel

Visiting the Chocolate Museum and having an absolute chocolate overkill

Lima

by FroeWiAllgemein 20. August 201421. September 2014No Comments

We were lazy…. Our Peruvian adventure started in Lima, where we stayed in Miraflores, one of the nicer parts of Lima. After the last month of constant travelling and sightseeing, we weren’t in the mood for more. Therefore, we walked around the district and went for some shopping in the Mercado Indio. After 4 hours of looking around and bargaining we left the market with satisfaction (an alpaca sweater, gloves, scarfs, etc. change their owner). The next day we walked along the beachfront of Miraflores until we hit the LarcoMar, a spectacular shopping mall built right into the oceanfront cliffs. We feel bad about it, but we didn’t do anything else in Lima 😉

My new cap for the colder days

Some glimpses of Miraflores

Pay attention to the garden door…

and last but not least LarcoMar shopping center 😉

Galapagos Islands – Diving

by FroeWiEcuador, Galapagos-Santa Cruz 17. August 201420. September 2014No Comments

Early in the morning Eva got picked up. The first dive site was north Seymour with a smooth current and a good visibility. We only ( 😉 saw a few hammerhead sharks, black tip reef shark, white tip reef shark, galapagos sharks, turtles, schools of barracudas, eagle rays and a variety of other fish!!! What an amazing first dive! The second dive site was Mosquera. While going down I realized the very strong current already. We had to hold on to rocks and crawl on the ground to get forward. Behind a rock we discovered two sleeping white tip reef sharks which we were observing for a while. The moment we let go all of us were washed away by the current. It felt like in waterslide!

The next day a dream came true when I (Eva) dived at Gordons Rock. The first hammerhead shark appeared on our way down, followed by a huge dark shadow at the surface. After a few more minutes a huge shadow showed up directly in front of me: a 5 meter manta ray! I always wanted to see one but I haven’t expected it to be so enormous. It was amazing. But as if that’s not enough – a school of approx. 30 hammerhead sharks came straight at us just to turn left and right directly in-front of us. We were surrounded by a huge school of hammerheads! The dive went on like that and we saw everything a divers heart can dream of: more hammerheads, manta rays, galapagos sharks, white tip reef shark, turtles, reef fishes, sting rays, eagle rays, barracudas, etc.

Diving Gordons Rock

Diving Mosquera and Seymore

Some impressions in pictures

Galapagos Islands – Sea Lions

by FroeWiEcuador 16. August 201419. September 20142 Comments

Sea lions are everybody’s darling – and we found out why! Especially while playing in the water but also while relaxing on sandy beaches and benches they are just super cute. On the Galapagos Islands there are about 50.000 of them. We were lucky because they seemed to have some special interest in us – several times they were playing with us in the water while we snorkeled. On San Cristobal we swam for about 15 minutes with one who started playing “catch the coral” with us (exactly like a dog would do it). He took the coral in his mouth and swam around us, dropped it and caught it again. After a while Niels picked it up, showed it to him and dropped it. The sea lion dived down and got it again. That game went on for quite a while – just amazing. An absolute highlight

Sun bathing

Playing shark

Galapagos – San Cristobal

by FroeWiEcuador, Galapagos-San Cristobal 15. August 20145. September 2014One Comment

Spending 5 days on San Cristobal is not enough the see everything but you get a good idea why the locals call the island the capital of paradise. It is a perfect place to relax and most of the sites are accessible by walking. We did a snorkeling trip to Kickers Rock and visited the Interpretation Center (where the history and significance of Galapagos is explained, etc. bla bla). To be honest, we only went to the Interpretation Center to met Pepe el Misionero – a giant tortoise who was partly brought up by our host Nelly. She runs the hostel of the same name (Casa de Nelly) and is owner to one of the nicest accommodation we had on our trip so far.

Our cute little villa

Niels riding a wooden version of Pepe

Snorkling trip to Kickers Rock

View while hiking

Charles Darwin monument

Goodbye Galapagos … IMG_20140814_190347

Galapagos – Floreana

by FroeWiEcuador, Galapagos-Floreana 12. August 20145. September 2014No Comments

Visiting Floreana (also known as Isla Santa Maria) for a day trip. It’s a small island with less than 100 inhabitants and only one hostel. Therefore, a day trip was perfect to see the giant tortoises, the highlands and some snorkeling.

Impressions of the highlands