After doing the Nazca lines, Tim and I made our way south to Arequipa, Peru's 2nd largest city. We arrived off a night bus early in the morning and feeling somewhat rested from the 10 hour trip, we headed off to explore downtown after checking into the sister hostel of the one I work at in Lima. While exploring and photographing downtown, we heard about a 400 year old monastery that was a sort of party convent for nuns for a couple centuries until they cracked do...

About 70 years ago, when the first flights started over Peru, pilots started reporting seeing mysterious shapes etched into the sun-baked desert floor near Nazca. What they were seeing were not only geometric forms and parallel lines but many different designs and drawings such as a monkey, tree, hands, condor, astronaut, whale, and many others. How they got there and what they mean still have scientists guessing. The drawings are made on such a large scale(the ...

Our first destination was the desert oasis town of Huacachina. We arrived in the black of night in what appeared to be just a small village in the middle of nowhere. We really couldn't see anything of our surroundings. Everything seemed normal and quite ordinary... until we got up the next morning and found ourselves surrounded by huge, mountain size sand dunes. The main attraction here...relaxing after a dune buggy ride and sand boarding! Check out the pix!

After 21 months of traveling ...and going strong I might add... my first visitor has arrived. One of my old college roommates and fraternity brothers, Tim, decided to shake things up this holiday season. Rather than be a creature of the common place and slave of the ordinary, he decided to spend 3 weeks of vacation backpacking around southern Peru with me. It will be a decision he won't regret. So what to do first in Lima? Obviously we shared a beer together. A...

Back to Huaraz... I needed a break from the big city so I decided to come back to Huaraz with two guys I became great friends with at the hostel in Lima. Ben and Leon are two crazy Brits that came to Lima for a day and ended up staying for 10 ... thanks to me and my co-worker Boris showing them such a good time. Huaraz is also the city that I lost all my photos of thanks to a clever pickpocket in Lima. So I am here to retake some of those pics and just relax and ...