https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Sat, 18 Feb 2023 01:06:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/adios-peru/ Thu, 05 Jul 2018 21:37:22 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=27225   July 5th We caught our flight to Cusco on time; all our luggage arrived with us!  Yeah – no customs issues.  Peru allows you each to bring in $500 USD worth of goods undeclared (unless they are a specific type) and we had $1000.13 between us – AND we left nearly $500 worth of […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/trip-home-canadaus-part-ii/ Sat, 09 Jun 2018 23:37:06 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=27116     June 9th Today we had a long driving day to make it to Big Sky, MT to visit Serena & Kurt with one stop enoute:  The Garden of One Thousand Buddhas at Arlee, MT. It was an okay/interesting stop but we wouldn’t call it a must do.  It was an overcast day so […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/trip-to-home-uscanada/ Mon, 14 May 2018 06:35:10 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=26844   May 14th, 2018 Las Vegas, NV Our flights from Cusco to Lima, then Lima to Vegas via Houston all went well and our luggage followed along with us.  We were exhausted though as we had  the red eye out of Lima and barely slept.  Fran’s cold didn’t help but it could have been much […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/taking-a-break-in-cusco-pe/ Fri, 20 Apr 2018 04:17:30 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=26819 April 19, 2018 History:  The city is surrounded by hills and there are many, many things to see and do in the area.  It’s one of South America’s biggest tourist destinations and the city has lovely whitewashed cobbled streets, lots of culture, a thriving nightlife and more Inca ruins than you can shake a stick […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/nazca-to-cusco-pe/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:02:11 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=26584   April 8, 2018 Sunday we left Huacachina, after breakfast and stopped for groceries in Ica before heading southeast towards Nazca. First stop was near the village of Palpa where the geoglyphs of the Paracas peoples are found. Somehow these are not as famous as the Nazca lines but are equally interesting. They actually predate […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/yauyos-cocha-reserve-back-to-the-coast-pe/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 22:58:49 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=26423   March 28th, 2018 That night in Huanuco, after that loooooong @ss slow drive, we decided we wanted burgers! There were no restaurants around the square where we were parked that looked like they might satisfy us so Fran saw on maps.me that this city had a mall with the grocery store we like in […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/the-cordillera-blanca-pe/ Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:32:28 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=26034   March 14TH, 2018 It was time to leave Cajamarca but we had one more thing to see in the area: Cumbe Mayo. This manmade canal/aqueduct is considered to be the oldest manmade structure in South America. It was about a 40 minute drive southwest of the city on a windy (surprise, surprise) uphill, dirt […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/heading-to-the-highlands-pe/ Fri, 02 Mar 2018 15:55:05 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=25824   March 2nd, 2018 After spending the morning doing chores and using the internet, we “shut down” and began heading inland to the Andes. It was a long distance to our first “destination” so we broke up the drive by arriving at a rest stop/gas station in the lower mountains not near any villages about […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/north-coast-of-peru/ Sun, 11 Feb 2018 19:12:10 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=25723   February 11, 2018 Last night it POURED down with rain in the middle of the night for a couple of hours; we awoke and shut windows and vents and tried to get back to sleep. The owners and their staff of two were out trying to redirect the flow of water from the parking […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/peru-welcomes-us/ Fri, 02 Feb 2018 21:18:29 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/?p=25530   February 2, 2018 So after 2154 miles/3467km, four new brake pads, installing a new power converter and a power transformer, hiking on volcanoes with snow! on the equator and spending some nice time on the Pacific, we left Ecuador with wonderful memories. Country Thirteen: PERU Peru is described as the most varied of all […]]]>