South America
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Arequipa
Arequipa, a city in southern Peru, is a beautiful city and the second largest city in Peru. It used to be the capital of Peru. July 28 is Peru's Independence Day, and this year marks its bicentennial. With Independence Day approaching, some festivities can be seen in various downtown squares, with Peruvian red and white flags all over the streets. In the city…
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Puno
Arrive in Puno in the morning, a city in southeastern Peru, known as the city of Peruvian folk culture. Unexpectedly, it is higher than Cusco, 3800 meters above sea level, the temperature is still low, and the temperature difference between day and night is huge. Winter is the coldest time here. Arrived here in the morning around zero, but at noon the sun is strong and warm...
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Cusco
Last night, I took the long-distance night train from Nazca to Cusco for 15 hours, because this train was driven from Lima during the day, and it was basically full when I got on the bus. My seat was taken by another person, and I told him that he occupied my seat, but because he was next to his family, I didn't think he meant to change seats, and there was an empty seat in the back, …
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Paracas, Huacachina, Nazca
A few days ago, a local friend in Lima said that they were in a desert. I was quite inexplicable at the time. I thought he was just making an analogy, because it rarely rains here, but later I found out that Lima is really in a desert. The second largest desert city in the world after Cairo, Egypt. The desert belts of Peru and Chile in South America are the driest regions in the world. This…
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Lima
Seeing that the epidemic situation in Peru has improved, I flew from Ecuador to Lima, the capital of Peru, last night. The flight requirements to Peru are much stricter than those of Ecuador. Two layers of masks must be worn, and the crew members will spray hand sanitizer on everyone's hands before boarding. After boarding the plane, the two people sitting next to me heard that they were from the United States, and when I asked, they found out that they were from Missouri...
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Cuenca, Guayaquil (2)
The small city of Cuenca is a 3.5-hour bus ride to the southeast of Guayaquil. The altitude is similar to that of the capital Quito, almost 3 kilometers. Fortunately, there are not so many up and down slopes. This small town is beautiful and the architecture is very distinctive. At a certain moment, it feels like Córdoba, a small town in southern Spain. The city is full of small shops: clothing stores, shoe stores…
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Guayaquil (1), Puerto Lopez
I left the Galapagos Islands by plane and flew to Guayaquil, a coastal city in the south, which is the largest city in Ecuador. As soon as I came out of the airport gate of Guayaquil, I saw a long pool on both sides, with slate, green plants and many goldfish swimming around, which was super beautiful. No wonder this airport 2…
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Galapagos Islands (San Cristóbal)
The two-hour boat trip to San Cristóbal, another big island, was almost torn apart. My sofa owner on this island is also in the tourism industry, and he said that most of the residents of the Galapagos Islands actually rely on tourism for a living. He has been working on cruise ships before, as a waiter, bartender,…
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Galapagos Islands (Santa Cruz)
The group went to North Seymour Island. Except for me, three of the eight people in the group were also from the Bay Area of California. A grandfather in his 70s joined the group alone because his wife and other friends went to a diving group for a week. , he felt that a week of diving was too long, so he signed up for a Spanish language training class in Quito and came to himself one day earlier...
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Galapagos Islands (Isabela)
Fly today from Quito to Galápagos Galapagos Islands. When flying from the United States to Ecuador, if you have a vaccine certificate, you do not need a negative test result, but you must have a negative test result when flying from the mainland to the Galapagos Islands. Sitting next to the plane were two brothers, one living in San Francisco...
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