Home travelBlog Photos retroBlog Trip timeline Homepage photos Search WELCOME TO OUR PERU ADVENTURE! Whilst traveling around Peru, Seamus and Paddy are keeping all their friends updated with their goings on. From the captial Lima to the Highlands and Jungle. This site will bring you as many updates and photographs as possible. LATEST NEWS All good things must come to an end, but even though our trip is now over, we still have blog entries and photographs to add to the site. Four new entries have just been added and new photographs will FINALLY be added. LATEST BLOGS I've got to agree, I love the stuff! In fact I've had friends bring me some bottles back from LA!! Make sure to try it!! Oh yeah, and the Pisco Sour. -30 Second Review number 1: Inka Kola, Dave LESS RECENT BLOGS Flight to freedom 03 Oct 2004 | Seamus Hanneka woke us up at 7am to say goodbye. By the time we got back to bed, we had flown over the Andes back to Lima and eaten far too many burgers. [ more ] Life on a limb up a mountain to Santa Terrasa 01 Oct 2004 | Paddy Up at 0600 & the girls have already gone to school - remember, this family live way way up on the side of a very steep mountain. What Seamus and I did yesterday these girls do twice a day !!! [ more ] Three day trek to beat the protests 30 Sep 2004 | Seamus With the protests growing daily, we made it high into the mountains on the first day and got lost. We were taken in by a family who fed us, and gave us a place to stay - with the chickens, dogs, cats, guinea pigs and goats. [ more ] Escape from Quillabamba ! 29 Sep 2004 | Paddy OK, so today we walk out of here...past the protesters, over the rope bridge, along the old train tracks, past the road blocks..... [ more ] Nothing to do but watch the peoples revolution 28 Sep 2004 | Paddy Today we do absolutely nothing all day except hide in the hotel room watching Fox & Hallmark. Here is why... [ more ] Long live the revolution! 27 Sep 2004 | Seamus It was meant to be eight hours on the bus from Cuzco to Quillabamba - it wasnt. After nightfall, with our packs on our backs, the last 2Km into Quillabamba were both worrying and elating. Elating because we had walked though many roadblocks, paid over the odds for a minibus to run the roadblocks and protesters and worryng because the hillside was on fire. [ more ] LATEST COMMENTS How is it possible that you can eat so many burgers in Puru!? Did you see Elvis whilst you were there too? ;-) As I was reading your coments about Ayacuho I noticed you had good time,just one thing you must be wrong in the name of the pant for the tea is not cocoa ,it is coca and the name of the herbal tea is "mate de coca" great read, some of my photos are up here www.urbanjellyfish.com what is shining path? I'm studying the Nazca geoglyphs for a project in school and I just want to say that your travel blog gave me quite a few laughs while still being educational at the same time. I'll be reading more entries in the future. Keep up the nice work. LATEST PHOTO BLOGS Playing in the streets Quillabamba Protest by-standers Quillabamba Protesters Quillabamba Protests LATEST PHOTO COMMENTS hey hey! Well I am in high skewl and we had to do a report on south america countries..i kno fun fun lol! And i picked Peru and my favorite part of doing the report was learning about this festival...it sounds so fun! I love it i wanna dance around a tree! WEll i gotta finish up my report so by byes!! <33 - Sheelah Today I've just walked the entire Arequipa Ave. From Cercado to Miraflores... It was sooooo great! God, I love Lima!! An outstandingly amazing sight, every time I see it. I just regret never having the chance to experience them up close. Would you be so kind to let me know where I can buy mate de coca tea bags? Kind regards Dee Sorry for that accidental duplication on my initial comment. The Puya Raimondii to me appears to be about fortythree feet tall (assuming person is five feet tall) and four feet in diameter. The inflorescence (technically a spicate panicle) appears to be twenty feet plus a five foot peduncle, and about five feet wide at the widest point. All of these are records for the species, if, in fact, the individual in the photo is parallel with the Puya relative to the camera, which to my eye appears to be the case. Do you remember the exact location of the person and their actual height?