What happens when a city goes to build a metro to help with its traffic issues, but can’t due to the unstable nature of the soil it is built on? It goes for the opposite approach and builds a cable car (teleférico) system instead! La Paz has the largest commuter cable car system in the world …
Another country, another perfect opportunity to explore the culture through one of my favourite mediums – food 🙂 I really struggled to find a cooking class, but I did come across the Foodie Tour by Red Cap Walking Tours – so immediately signed up. Daniel met me in front of the San Francisco Church …
Imagine WWF wrestling – you know that really weird “fake” wrestling that you see from time to time on TV? Got that good and firm in your mind? Great! OK – now imagine WWF wrestling but done by indigenous Bolivian women (Cholitas) wearing traditional clothing. Yes – this is what I went to see the …
Wandering around La Paz yesterday I started noticing that there are also tons of murals about the Zebras de La Paz. Couldn’t resist 🙂
The first day I was in La Paz, I was slightly bamboozled to see Zebras working the major intersection near one of the key plazas in the city – the Plaza San Francisco. I learned about the Zebras de La Paz (or Zebras for peace – depending on which interpretation you want to use) the …
I’ve become a huge fan of “Free walking tours” in each of the major places that I visit. The idea is that the tour itself is free and you pay a “tip” at the end depending on how much you enjoyed the experience. So, given I didn’t really have any plans for Cusco, and I …
As you have probably figured out by now if you have been reading this blog for a while, one of the first things I do before heading to a new place is search for cooking classes on offer there. Fortunately Cusco had many choose from, and in the end, I decided upon the dinner menu …
This is my 4th time in Cusco, Peru. The previous 3 times I concentrated on Machu Picchu (yes, I’ve been there 3 times but have never hiked the trail), other Incan sites (Sacsahuaman, Pisac, Moray), and (my personal favourite) the Salinas de Maras. This time around, I didn’t plan to stay very long in the …
Huacachina is a small oasis surrounded by sand dunes and looks pretty amazing, until you realise it is only 5km outside the large city of Ica in southern Peru. If you’ve never seen reasonably large sand dunes and are travelling through Peru – this would definitely be worth a visit (though unfortunately the water in …
