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World Tour: Peru (Lima, Chincha, Pisco, Paracas, Ica, Huacachina, Nazca)
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"IMG_6520.jpg" "Back in Lima, I ready my moto and say my goodbyes..."
"IMG_6524.jpg" "on my way around South America"
"IMG_6525.jpg" "Leaving Lima (1 of 2)"
"IMG_6526.jpg" "Leaving Lima (2 of 2)"
"IMG_6528.jpg" "Standard faire across Peru, Pollo ala Brasa in Chincha, 5s"
"IMG_6530.jpg" "Chincha hotel owner teaches me Dos Almas"
"IMG_6531.jpg" "The road to San Juan"
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"IMG_6535.jpg" "Night market"
"IMG_6545.jpg" "El Carmen - The Black Capital of Peru"
"IMG_6552.jpg" "a small and quiet pueblo where not much happens"
"IMG_6553.jpg" "Plaza de Armas (1 of 2)"
"IMG_6554.jpg" "Plaza de Armas (2 of 2)"
"IMG_6551.jpg" "Its actually quite dull"
"IMG_6558.jpg" "To the Hacienda San Jose where i toured the tunnels"
"IMG_6560.jpg" "and met Diana & Karla of Lima also on tour of the coast"
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"IMG_6566.jpg" "on to Pisco"
"IMG_6568.jpg" "where about the most interesting thing was the old fishing pier"
"IMG_6569.jpg" "and the small pueblos down the coast"
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"IMG_6574.jpg" "Moto touring the Paracas Marine Reserve"
"IMG_6575.jpg" "With its impressive drop-offs"
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"IMG_6582.jpg" "and its mysterious candlestick"
"IMG_6584.jpg" "and its kilometers of magical nothing"
"IMG_6587.jpg" "an incredible moto experience"
"IMG_6585.jpg" "uh..."
"IMG_6588.jpg" "Ah... a map!"
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"IMG_6590.jpg" "Los Lobos del Mar"
"IMG_6591.jpg" "These fishermen were insane"
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"IMG_6595.jpg" "An unexpectedly delicious sea bass for lunch, 10s"
"IMG_6597.jpg" "roads to nowhere"
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"IMG_6603.jpg" "amazing lookouts"
"IMG_6606.jpg" "and The Cathedral"
"IMG_6605.jpg" "where I encounter my first tourists"
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"IMG_6610.jpg" "The semi-saviours"
"IMG_6615.jpg" "Welcome to Ica, a typical and pleasent city"
"IMG_6613.jpg" "but just as trashy as everywhere else"
"IMG_6614.jpg" "The Rio Grande"
"IMG_6612.jpg" "where I had the pleasure of getting pissed with the pisco brothers"
"IMG_6617.jpg" "and meeting Fritzia and her family"
"IMG_6619.jpg" "and drinking more pisco while avoiding the lines of coke and whores with the local gobierno corrupto"
"IMG_6620.jpg" "Parades leading up to July 28,  Independence Day"
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"STA_6632.jpg" "Ica (1 of 3)"
"STB_6633.jpg" "Ica (2 of 3)"
"STC_6634.jpg" "Ica (3 of 3)"
"IMG_6648.jpg" "A few days relaxing at the nearby Huacachina"
"IMG_6628.jpg" "A beautiful and tranquilo desert oasis"
"IMG_6645.jpg" "and tourist town"
"IMG_6627.jpg" "the sand boarding capital of Peru"
"IMG_6631.jpg" "what to do, but sit on the dunes"
"IMG_6644.jpg" "and paddle boat around the lagoon"
"IMG_6685.jpg" "checked in to the Salvatierra, 15s"
"IMG_6683.jpg" "cuarto quarenta y cinco"
"IMG_6681.jpg" "ninos en la ventana"
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"IMG_6684.jpg" "so happy he finally won one"
"IMG_6635.jpg" "a tough climb to the top of the dunes"
"IMG_6649.jpg" "for a beautiful sunset"
"IMG_6688.jpg" "The Pan America Sur to Nazca"
"IMG_6690.jpg" "my 'spider hole' for the night"
"IMG_6692.jpg" "over the pass"
"IMG_6693.jpg" "The lines of Palpa (reloj del sol)"
"IMG_6695.jpg" "The road to La Pena"
"IMG_6696.jpg" "The Nazca Lines Mirador"
"IMG_6697.jpg" "Where you can see 2 figures... this one is some sort of bird i think"
"IMG_6698.jpg" "and some blob with its arms in the air"
"IMG_6699.jpg" "But i was more impressed by the Pan America that cuts through it all"
"Img_6701.jpg" "Back alley of Nazca"
"Img_6703.jpg" "The extracting of gold"
"Img_6706.jpg" "mercury does the trick"
"Img_6709.jpg" "rinsing it"
"Img_6711.jpg" "and filtering it though a fine cloth"
"Img_6714.jpg" "and the result is gold, plus a little mercury which needs boiled off (this is 15 bags of stone worth)"
"Img_6716.jpg" "Futbol match, the back door"
"Img_6717.jpg" "The aquaducts"
"Img_6718.jpg" "a river of water underground to protect it from the dry heat of day"
"Img_6719.jpg" "Cerro Blanco, the worlds largest sand dune on the horizon"
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"Img_6721.jpg" "Into the mountains... the road to Puquio"