by PeterMurtagh-user | Jan 16, 2023 | Blog
Cusco and Machu PichuThe mountains nestle Cusco in their palm.The arms of three great Andean cordilleras — Vilcabamba, Urubamba and Vilcanola — come together and where they meet, there is something of a natural bowl in the landscape. That’s where...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jan 14, 2023 | Blog
January 14th 2023 Pisco, Peru.Hundreds of trucks are lined up on the road out of Puquio, a medium-sized town in south central Peru, home to some 15,000 people. The line of vehicles snakes back into the town, right back into the center where the streets are clogged...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jan 14, 2023 | Blog
January 13th 2023, Lima.Well, this is a blog I wish I was not writing. I have just learnt of the death of my friend, benefactor and guardian angel in Punta Arenas, Patricio Corcoran. He died yesterday, apparently after a short illness, but more I know not. He was only...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jan 13, 2023 | Blog
December 30th 2022, Uyuni, Bolivia.Uyuni is famous to outsiders for two things: its train cemetery and its ginormous salt flat — transport and minerals: the story of Bolivia, in so many ways.The city’s main drag is called Avenida Ferroviaria and the raised...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jan 10, 2023 | Blog
December 28th, Villa Alota, Bolivia.For the first time on this adventure, I am about to enter pastures entirely new to me. Before this visit to Chile, I had already been to Patagonia, to the Central Valley and to the Atacama. But never to Bolivia; never to Peru and,...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Jan 9, 2023 | Blog
Sierra Gorda, Atacama Desert, December 27th 2022.There was something really weird — a couple of things actually — on the road between Calama and Antofagasta between Christmas and the New Year. I travelled it because, after San Pedro de Atacama, I had to...
