RobbC
03-10-2011, 06:06 PM
In response to interest from another thread about what im goin to be doin while im away in Peru ive decided to write up the itinerary. We depart between the 28th June and the 5th of July (we havent got the definate date as of yet), and we will be spending 28 days 'in country'.
So we arrive in Lima - the capital city of Peru - on day 1, and after spending 2 days aclimatising to the new time zone ( -6hrs GMT), travel to the city of Cuzco, and spend a further day getting used to the alitidude (3000 meters above see level if i remember correctly). In Cuzco we are spending 5 days doing volounteer work in a boys orpahanage, wecould be doing anything from digging and building foundations for a classroom to planting an orchard. After the project at the orphanage we are travelling out to the city of Arequipa - which lies in the Andes. It is from here we will be doin our trek. The trek last 5 days, we are trekking the Cotahausi canyon, the deepest at the world - 3535 meters at its deepest point - with the last day of the trek heading out of the canyon and trekking through a cactus forest before spending our final night at a desert oasis. Then we will be travelling to the Incan City in the skys, Machu Picchu, where we will be spending 3 days exploring the area. From there we will be heading back out into the desert to basically muck about in the sand dunes, and hopefully try sand boarding, which is like skeleton boarding, but on sand, where the boards can reach 40 MPH :happy-clapping:. Next stop is Lake Titicaca, the highest commercial navigable lake in the world, also the largest by volume of water. Here we will be spending a few day exploring the lake and spending time on the woven reed islands which are home to villages of people. After that its time to head back to Lima where we will spend one final day eating and shopping:D.
Well thank you for reading:),Robb
So we arrive in Lima - the capital city of Peru - on day 1, and after spending 2 days aclimatising to the new time zone ( -6hrs GMT), travel to the city of Cuzco, and spend a further day getting used to the alitidude (3000 meters above see level if i remember correctly). In Cuzco we are spending 5 days doing volounteer work in a boys orpahanage, wecould be doing anything from digging and building foundations for a classroom to planting an orchard. After the project at the orphanage we are travelling out to the city of Arequipa - which lies in the Andes. It is from here we will be doin our trek. The trek last 5 days, we are trekking the Cotahausi canyon, the deepest at the world - 3535 meters at its deepest point - with the last day of the trek heading out of the canyon and trekking through a cactus forest before spending our final night at a desert oasis. Then we will be travelling to the Incan City in the skys, Machu Picchu, where we will be spending 3 days exploring the area. From there we will be heading back out into the desert to basically muck about in the sand dunes, and hopefully try sand boarding, which is like skeleton boarding, but on sand, where the boards can reach 40 MPH :happy-clapping:. Next stop is Lake Titicaca, the highest commercial navigable lake in the world, also the largest by volume of water. Here we will be spending a few day exploring the lake and spending time on the woven reed islands which are home to villages of people. After that its time to head back to Lima where we will spend one final day eating and shopping:D.
Well thank you for reading:),Robb