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South America 2019

I’ll tell you about my last day – just Lima alone – part 2

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This time it’s Roky’s. It was late in the afternoon and I was more than ready for lunch so I asked the museum guide if she might know of a nearby restaurant where I could have pollo a la brasa …

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I’ll tell you about my last day – just Lima alone

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As part of my post trip evaluation for Journey Latin America, I suggested that they make the second overnight stay in Lima (at least for those coming from Paracas) optional. I left Paracas late in the afternoon of 26 March …

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Shaking my Paracas – part 2

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The Gray City of Kings. If you do basic cursory research about the history of Lima, you’ll probably read that Francisco Pizarro established the Ciudad de los Reyes (City of the Kings) on 18 January 1535. For him, this was …

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Shaking my Paracas

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I’ll start with the admission that today’s title is such a stretch than even I have to flag it as a terrible pun that has no connection to anything about the Paracas Reserve or about anything that happened on the …

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See ’em, smell ’em, hear ’em but don’t touch ’em – part 2

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The Candelabra that isn’t. The Ballestas Islands are part of the Paracas National Reserve – a protected area of 335,000 hectares (217,750 marine and 117,250 terrestrial) created to conserve both the desert and marine ecosystems of the south-central coast of …

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