My list is in the blue notebook, toward the back, hidden, and written in short-hand to avoid potential embarassment should I accidentally leave it in the back seat of a rental car again.  Admit it. You have one, too. You may not go to such great lengths as I to conceal it — you may [...]

I snapped this photo of a young boy in traditional local dress during our home-stay on Lake Titicaca’s Isla Taquile. He was playing with several other children in the island’s Plaza de Armas, or main square. The children took turns climbing to the roof of this building and dropping things down to the others below. [...]

Lake Titicaca is not always the top item on one’s agenda when planning a trip to Peru.  It wasn’t exactly the first destination on our list either; in fact, it was second on our back-up plan! When we had to cancel our Inca Trail trek due to a lingering injury, we scrambled to fill our [...]

High atop the beautiful, windswept altiplano of Southern Peru lies the expansive and enigmatic Lake Titicaca– the highest navigable lake in the world and the largest lake in South America. The lake splits its territory between nations, with 60% of its waters belonging to Peru, and 40% to Bolivia. Although far less traveled than the [...]

Step off your boat, onto the hay, and meet the Uros people – a people shrouded in mystery, wrapped in myth and lore.  According to legend, they are the oldest people on the earth – older than the sun itself, their existence stretching back to times long ago.  A peculiar people – set apart in [...]