🇵🇪 Peruvian Hospitality – Home of Giancarlo
After the less than spectacular drive over the desolate and littered part of the Panamericana, we reach…
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🇵🇪 The Garbage of the World – A Desert of Trash
The drive after leaving Huanchaco and Chan Chan is uneventful. We drive through the desert, far from the…
🇵🇪 The Chimús’ Grave – The Ancient Capital of Chan Chan
A bit of rest on the surfer beach was good. In the morning of our departure we visit Chan Chan, the…
🇵🇪 Surfers’ Paradise of Huanchaco and Trujillo
We leave the site of the Huacas and head to our lodging in Huanchaco, a small coastal town outside of…
🇵🇪 In the Dust of The Huaca de la Luna
We don't spend the night with the turtles, but drive a little further north. The night at the gas…
🇵🇪 The Hill of the Turtle – The Bay of Tortugas
We leave the ugly Panamericana in between and drive to the small town of Tortugas on the beach.
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🇵🇪 The ugly Face of the Pan-americanan Highway
The car stays intact when driving out of Lima, but new problems arise anyway. During one of the…
🇵🇪 Driving in Lima: Welcome to Hell
A long stretch of desolation brings us from the absurd tourist oasis near Ica to the city limits of…
🇵🇪 Huacachina – A Piece of the Orient in the Occident
It's four o'clock in the afternoon, five hours after our breakdown, when we're back on the road. The…
🇵🇪 The Country of the Naszca – Glyphs, Churches and Glitches
We refresh our supplies, I have our air filter cleaned as a precaution, and off we go. We leave Nazca…
🇵🇪 The inexplicable Legacy – The Pyramid of the Nazca
When I have solid ground under my feet again after the flight over the Nazca Lines, we go to eat…
🇵🇪 The inexplicable Legacy – The Lines of The Nazca
After our visit to the dead, we arrive in the city of Nazca in the afternoon. We stay the night there…
🇵🇪 A Hello from the Dead of Chauchilla
Our bellies are filled with olives. The chapter of our journey changes again. The last time we were alone…
🇵🇪 Living Ghost Towns of the Pan-American Highway
After the eventful day with the ocean, pretty girls and pelicans we continue along the Panamericana. The…
🇵🇪 A Day with the Ocean, Girls and Pelicans
We leave our dream beach and follow the Panamericana to Ático in the late morning to have lunch and do all…
🇵🇪 Perfect Vanlife – A Dream of Loneliness
A lot of time has passed in the chance encounter with the whales on the beach. It's too late to reach…
🇵🇪 An impossible Encounter – the Whales on the Beach
We are on the Panamericana and although the landscape is barren, there are always surprises. At…
🇵🇪 The Pacific Section of the Legendary Panamericana
In the afternoon we say goodbye to the children in Mollendo and continue up the Panamericana for…
🇵🇪 A Heart for Children in Mollendo
We had a lovely first taste of Mollendo, our first stop on the Pacific Coast after months of traveling…
🇵🇪 The Pacific Coast Town of Mollendo
As soon as we reach the coast via the sand-covered mountains, we are now on the legendary…
🇵🇪 The Mountains covered in Sand
The landscape around Arequipa is bone dry. We already saw that on the way from the Altiplano and during…
🇵🇪 Arequipa, the Pearl in the Shadow of the Vulcanoes
The drive down from the Altiplano to the city of Arequipa is very difficult because, although it is…
🇵🇪 The Llamas and The Altiplano
After our impressive stay on one of the floating reed islands of Lake Titicaca, we return to the city of…
🇵🇪 On the Uros Reed Islands of Lake Titicaca
After exploring the city of Puno, we leave the car in a commercial garage and stay for three days on…
🇵🇪 Puno, the City of Mountains, Lake and Alpakas
The journey from the border town of Yunguyo leads over the barren high plateau and in parts along the…
🇵🇪 Peru’s ongoing Fight For a new Beginning
Bolivian Copacabana is behind us and a bunch of formalities ahead. However, the border crossing is…
🇧🇴 The Lake Titicaca and The Bolivian Copacabana
We are happy that we can continue. The continuation of our journey was still hanging by a thread a few…
🇧🇴 Our Journey Hanging by a Thread
The sunrise is fantastic at our night camp on the shore of Lake Titicaca where the reeds are growing…
🇧🇴 The Origin of The Kon Tiki
We drive north-west across the Altiplano. We finally made the climb to El Alto and left La Paz. The…
🇧🇴 Cholitas and Witches of La Paz
La Paz has a very special mix of modernity and tradition. While on the one hand people in suits are…
