Hola amigos y parientes!After 3 nights and days on different busses we are currently in Yurimaguas, Peru. We started our travellings from Cusco on thursday night with a 22hour bus journey to Lima. Arrived friday night, got some food at some street kitchen and took another night bus to Trujillo. Arrived there saturday morning, 10 hours later. Ate breakfast at café Buenos Aires)muy bueno) and took a taxi out to the ruins of Chan Chan. It was a city of the Chimu pe...

We had two great weeks in Arequipa, with the amazing Colca Canyon and our trips to Misti and Chachani as the definite highlights, but it was eventually time to move on. Following the Gringo-trail north to Cusco and the lost city of the Inca-empire; Macchu Picchu. When we in March decided to stop by Galapagos, we also said that we would sacrifice the Inca-trail to Macchu Picchu to make up for the lost money, and do it as cheap as possible. We stepped out of the ...

CHACHANI : Shortly after completing our tour on El Misti we decided that we definately were going to try Chachani too. The opportunity to stand on a mountain 6000meter above the sea level was so real and we booked a tour for monday 2nd of may. Two days were spent in Arequipa and The Scandinavian relaxing, reading, drinking coffee and writing postcards. We booked the tour through Quechua Explorer, a different from the last one. This place was much more prof...

Even before going to this city we had looked into the possibilities for climbing mountains here. And upon arrival to Arequipa , Thursday 21st of april in the early morning light, we could see the two towering mountains guarding it. El Misti is a beautiful perfect cone with its peak covered in snow at 5825 meter (19100ft) above sea level. The other is the mountain of Chachani, with many pointy tops, the highest at 6095 meter (19997ft!) above sea level. There w...

At 0200 our alarms started squeaking the best they could, as a result 13 grumpy backpackers crawled out of bed and in to their backpacks ready for 3 - days of trekking. We stumbled out in the van and almost immediately fell asleep, and slept pretty much straight through the 2.5 hour buss-ride to Colca Canyon; one of the deepest canyons in the world. One of the greatest motivations for our trip in Colca Canyon was the high chances of seeing the worlds biggest bir...