Lima is almost 4,000 km south of Venezuela on the Pan-American Highway, but all the way up through Peru and into Ecuador, next to the usual sellers...

There’s a long, and fascinating, tradition of textile production in Peru. Despite the fragility of natural fibres, a remarkable number of pieces of...

All the guidebooks make it sound as though Piura is just a city that you’re forced to stop in on the way through northern Peru to Ecuador, but we...

Peru is full of amazing archaeology, and also has an almost embarrassing quantity of remarkably good museums. Sadly, this made me into a...

Chiclayo itself is a pretty big, busy town. There’s quite a lot to see fairly nearby, but, as with Trujillo, it’s hard to get to the archaeological...

Water in the South Pacific tends to circulate counter-clockwise, driven by trade winds and the Coriolis effect. The Humboldt Current, consisting of...

Huaca del Sol - note cars in foreground for scale Pisco Sour Day officially falls on the first Saturday in February in Peru. Rather than going out...

Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about exchange rates, unless they have to for some reason, such as making significant foreign...

Puno is the Peruvian gateway to Lake Titicaca. The city itself is a bit sad. The impressive colonial Plaza de Armas is surrounded by a few streets of...

There are a couple of options for getting from Cusco to Puno: the ordinary bus and the tourist bus, which has nicer seats and stops along the way for...

Cusco (also Cuzco, Qosco, or Qoscu, depending on whether you're using Spanish or Quechua orthography, and from which era) is beautiful, but it's...

A few miles down the road from Moray, the Maras salt ponds have been run as a local cooperative since Inca times. Ocean waters were trapped inland...

The Moray archaeological site consists of a small collection of circular terraces sitting in small depressions on a high plateau above the Urubamba...

There are three ways of getting to Machu Picchu, unless you have a helicopter. The easiest way is to take the train from Ollantaytambo to Aguas...

Expanding on the last post, here are lots of pictures of stone walls, loosely mortared together with rambling commentary. These two are from...

“So how was Machu Picchu”, you’re probably asking by now - but we’re mostly doing this chronologically, and there are a few more steps before we get...

We’d been carrying around way too much stuff for too long, so after coming back to Lima from the altiplano we decided to take a box of extra stuff to...

I now have some data about how planes work when landing in high places. This chart shows our journey from Lima to Cusco, starting at sea level and...

It’s been more than a month since we left Santiago for the final time. I’ve been meaning to write something about how things were there but have been...

We watched the Life Of Brian on Netflix the other day (what? not Christmas-ey enough?) - mostly because Susan had never seen it before, but also for...