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Horse Riding and Ruins
Two days ago we went on a horse tour in San Augustin. San Augustin is in south-central Colombia and is home to the San Augustin ancient group. They didn’t leave any written records and they died out long before settlers came here, so we don’t know their name or much about them at all. The…
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El Refugio de Intag Cloud Forest Lodge
Two days ago we arrived at a lodge in the Ecuadorian cloud forest. The day we arrived we crossed the equator into the northern hemisphere, YAY! A cloud forest is a high forest that is sometimes in the clouds. They had squirrels and lots of birds there. The squirrel we saw was the first squirrel…
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Sundry Interesting Things, Peru
A couple of things the kids haven’t written about or that got lost in the drive through Peru. We did and overflight of the Nazca lines in Peru, but I couldn’t get the kids to write about it. I think it was the kids’ first time in a small plane (A Cessna 207, for various…
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Quito
Right now, we’re in Quito, the capital city of Ecuador. Quito is in the northern middle-ish of Ecuador. We got here two days ago and have been exploring since. The first day we got here we walked around and had some vegetarian food for dinner. The second day we walked around the city and went…
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Our Waterfall Hike
A couple days ago we went on a hike to a waterfall. This hike took us about five hours to complete and ended at Gocta Falls in the Amazonas province of Peru. We started the hike at around eleven in the morning. We parked the car, went to the bathroom and put on sunscreen before…
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Our Trip Through Northern Peru
Our trip so far has been great. I know you probably have heard about our trip up to the Nazca Lines, but after that we’ve also had some interesting experiences. These past few days we’ve been driving like crazy and have driven more than six hundred miles since Cusco. We went to Nazca and stayed…
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Pushing North in Peru
We’ve been pushing hard to get north in Peru. Given our desire to be back home in mid-July, we’re having to make decisions about what to see and what we’re going to skip. After Machu Picchu and Nazca, we decided to head to northern Peru and skip much of central Peru. That meant getting on…
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The Incas
The Inca Empire was very large. It stretched from Columbia to Northern Chile. The time period was from 1400 to 1550 when Francisco Pizzaro conquered them. The Inca was just the king and not the people but the Spanish called them Inca. The Incas had many gods they worshiped. The Inca earth god was Pachamama,…
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The Incan Empire
We are currently in the empire of the Incas. The Incas were a people that were born, thrived, got very far in terms of modern technology, and had their entire world collapse in the span of only one hundred and fifty years. The Incan stretched from Colombia down to Santiago in Chile. I know that…
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The Q’eswachaka Rope Bridge
Family post about a recent adventure! Sydney: A couple days ago we went to an Inca rope bridge. It was made of grass. The locals have to rebuild the bridge every year because it will fall apart if they don’t. The bridge goes over a big river. I was not that scared when I crossed…
