Tag: Hotels

• September 23, 2009

  Trujillo.

  Hostel Colonial has a good rating from the guide book I have but upon arrival, it’s pretty lacking. There’s major construction going on in the middle of the building and the rooms are small and old, in a grubby way. As check-in wasn’t for a couple of hours, we were put in a holding room,…
• September 8, 2009

  Puno arrival.

  

  Arrived only about an hour late in Puno, via Juliaca. The guidebook was bang on this time when talking about Juliaca, that it’s just a big junction on the way to somewhere else. Looking more like Nazca but with American sized streets, this town houses the nearest airport to Puno and that’s about it. It…
• May 18, 2009

  Something different in Arequipa.

  It became obvious after the past couple of arrangements for the Peru trip, that the country has an advertised tourist agenda on-line and attempting to divert from that goes initially ignored, or there’s just never any response. Arequipa was to be no exception. Arequipa has some notable tourist attractions in the main city and two…