Many people don’t realize that the famous Inca Trail hikes to Machu Picchu make up a small piece of a vast Inca road system that spans from Peru to Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Argentina. The roads connected the Inca empire and were used by Chaski’s, or […]
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In the last 8 years, I’ve lived in Peru, I’ve split my time raising my family between the Andes and Peru’s capital Lima. February 2020, a month before the pandemic, we moved back to Lima, choosing to live in the suburbs for more space and quiet. […]
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In 2013 I started selling private tours, in South America, over half of our sales were tours of Peru. It seemed that almost all travelers had a similar vision in their heads of their trip to Machu Picchu. They would wake up at 4 am, and […]
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Do you remember when an eco-lodge actually meant a hotel or lodge that followed principles and systems to minimize the impact on the local environment? Or when a sustainable business actually indicated a company’s ability to sustain the environment around them? Over the years it seems […]
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At Amazonas Explorer, our guides are the life and soul of any trip to Peru and right now they are struggling to make ends meet. With the international borders being closed, the 2020 guiding season has been decimated and nobody knows when tourism will start up […]
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