After the endless miles of desert and the bleak mountain passes we had just crossed, driving down into Cusco was like arriving in another world. The original city built at the bottom of this verdant valley was the thriving capital of the vast Inca Empire, stretching from northern Ecuador all the way south to central, [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2010’
Sand is harder than snow…
I had never really believed in oases. You know, the kind that you see in the movies: swaying palms and crystal blue water glimmering in the distance through the rippling heat waves over the desert. I guess on some level I knew they had to exist, but it just seemed so made up. The desert [...]
Under the shadow of the Andes
On the Peru map, the road inland from the PanAmerican highway at Casma towards Huaraz looks fairly straight and short. Comparing the distance between this route and the alternative of driving south till Pativilca and then back north to Huaraz, it should have saved us over 300 miles of driving. Never mind that our route [...]
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