30th August – 5th September 2018 Sometimes when travelling you have rather romanticised expectations which do not deliver and such was the case when I embarked upon my journey to the Amazon. The idea was that I wanted to reach Iquitos – the Amazon’s biggest city, an urban pocket deep within the jungle – byContinue reading “Travelblog SA#14: Iquitos – Peru”
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Travelblog SA#13: Chachapoyas – Peru
25th-28th August 2018 ‘Chachapoyas’ means ‘people of the clouds’ in Quechua, and there is no mystery as to why this region was named such way as you are driven there through a series of winding roads cutting through the mountains. I arrived there at night, after a long day crossing the border from Ecuador whereContinue reading “Travelblog SA#13: Chachapoyas – Peru”
Travelblog SA#12: Loja & Vilcabamba – Ecuador
19th-24th August 2018 The first thing I noticed about Loja was how religious it was. I arrived there on a Sunday and almost everything was closed, apart from the churches which were so cram-packed there were people spilling out from the doorways. One of the only places I could find open was an ice-cream parlour,Continue reading “Travelblog SA#12: Loja & Vilcabamba – Ecuador”
Tej Turner 