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In April of 2002 we did a backpacking tour in South America for 1 month. Our itinerary included Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.
This was very short compared to the travels of some of the exciting people we met on our trip who had been traveling for months.
See the locations we visited on this map and check out the Photo Gallery for more than 500 pictures from our trip.
Our first stop was Lima, Peru where we stayed for just a few hours in the airport. We took a connecting flight to Cuzco, the ancient capital of the Incas. We stayed there for a few days to get used to the altitude and until Andreas recovered from "soroche" which is the altitude sickness. (FYI ... the best treatment for soroche, is drinking coca tea !!). During our stay at Cuzco we made arrangements for the Inca Trail, a 4 day hike through the high mountains of the Peruvian Andes, ending up at the ancient lost city of Machu Picchu.
After the Inca Trail, we rested for 1 day and then took a flight to Puerto Maldonado, which is the nearest airport to two magnificent rainforest Lodges, the Posada Amazonas and the Tambopata Research Center. We had to take a 2 hr boat trip in the Tambopata River to Posada Amazonas and we stayed there for 2 days. We then took another, 4 hr boat trip to the Tambobata Research Center (TRC) where we stayed for 4 days. TRC is a research center studying the wildlife of the Amazon Rainforest and especially the Macaw parrots. After the jungle experience, we returned back to Puerto Maldonado by boat and took the return flight to Cusco.
The next day we took a scenic train ride from Cuzco to Puno, which is near Lake Titikaka, which is located in the borders of Peru and Bolivia. We took a bus to cross the border to Bolivia, to end up in the city with the highest airport in the world, La Paz. We stayed in La Paz for 3 days and then took a flight to Sao Paolo, Brazil to stay there for one night. The next day we took an internal flight to Foz do Iguaçu, in the South Eastern part of Brazil.
We left Foz after 2 days to our final destination, Rio De Janeiro to enjoy life for 5 days before flying back to New York..
A cup of coca tea
A grazing lama in Machu Picchu
A butterfly at Foz do Iguaçu
Christ the Redeemer in Rio
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