Today I’m jumping ahead in the sequence of our travel stops to publish a special post about a very special place, Machu Picchu. It is located in southern Peru, 80 kilometers northwest of Cusco, on the crest of the mountain Machu Picchu, located about 2,450 metres (8,040 ft) above mean sea level. It is one of…
Building the Panama Hat
This post is my segue from the Panama Canal to our first stop on the West Coast of South America, the port of Manta, Ecuador. Manta is very close to the town of Montecristi, home of the Panama Hat. Yes indeed, the Panama Hat is a product of Ecuador and got its name at the…
Panama Canal
January 18th was another big day, the day we crossed from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean via the storied Panama Canal. The length of the Panama Canal is approximately 51 miles. A trip along the canal from its Caribbean side takes you through a 7 mile dredged channel in Limón Bay. The canal…
Cartagena, Colombia
After an overnight trip from Aruba, we arrived in Cartagena, Colombia on January 16th, our first port of call in South America. We were eager to see this coastal city, recalling the beautiful cinematography in the 1984 film Romancing the Stone. The movie featured actors Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito, upstaged by the…
Cartagena Favourites
Three of the photos merit a little more attention than those in the slideshow in my previous blog. The first two feature some street vendors we encountered in Cartagena. Street vendors are not unique, in fact they are everywhere and not they are not normally photo subjects. In this case, it was different. We encountered…