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Colca Canyon, Peru, South America

The Depths of Peru: A Venture into Colca Canyon

February 2, 2020 No Comments

Sunscreen? Check. Coca tea? Check. Telephoto and wide-angle camera lens? Check. All right. We are ready to head off to Colca Canyon! After two days of acclimatizing under the watchful eye of the El Misti volcano as we meandered through the colorful corridors of the Santa Catalina monastery, savored the […]

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Africa, Argentina, Ecuador, Kenya, Peru, South America, Tanzania

Favorite Travel Memories of 2019

January 12, 2020 No Comments

As the year drew to a close and we looked back at how the past 365 days had shaped us, Dan and I can only contemplate that 2019 has personally been a long and challenging year for us and very much a period of desperately hoping for time to pass […]

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Arequipa, Peru, South America

Photo Diary: Acclimatizing in Arequipa

March 30, 2019 1 Comment

Our main purpose for spending two nights in Peru’s second-biggest city was to get acclimatized for the high-altitude passes en route to nearby Colca Canyon, but we quickly found the “White City” of Arequipa is worth spending some time lingering in and admiring the city’s namesake cool white volcanic stone […]

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Lima, Peru, South America

Lima Love: An Indulgent Celebratory Meal at Astrid y Gaston

February 25, 2019 1 Comment

The Postcard Travelers recently celebrated a milestone birthday with Dan’s fortieth trip around the sun. We decided to celebrate in the big way that the day called for by dressing up in our finest and indulging ourselves with the 14-course tasting menu at Astrid y Gaston, Lima’s original haute-cuisine locale. […]

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Peru, South America, Tarapoto

Welcome to the Jungle: Part 3

January 13, 2019 No Comments

Missed Part 2? Get caught up here! Well, it’s official: Dan and I have now aged a couple decades and have become birding people. I love a good treasure hunt — whether it actually be finding buried loot on some island or isolating all the mix-ins in a pint of […]

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Peru, South America, Tarapoto

Welcome to the Jungle: Part 2

January 3, 2019 1 Comment

Missed Part 1? Check it out here! After an enjoyable first day in the jungle in search of poison dart frogs on our hike to the Pucayaquillo waterfall and effectively managing to evade the wrath of any mosquitos with plentiful dousings of bug spray, the program for our second full […]

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Peru, South America, Tarapoto

Welcome to the Jungle: Part 1

December 23, 2018 No Comments

Our second venture into the varied landscape of Peru brought us to Tarapoto, a cloud forest city in northern Peru located in the high jungle plateau of the Amazon Basin. As our plane descended into the “City of Palms” over muddy chocolate rivers — fitting as one of the areas biggest […]

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