Tag Archives: south america

Arequipa // the other white city

Posted on November 29, 2018 by intercat5

Okay, granted, it’s no Gondor, but Arequipa is a beautiful city and also LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL CAT. She smelled like pee, which meant I smelled like pee on the bus down to Chile, and honestly I didn’t care. I’d … Continue reading →

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puno // stigmatatata from lake titicaca

Posted on November 19, 2018 by intercat5

Puno is definitely worth visiting even if your early formative years weren’t defined by Beavis & Butthead, and trying to perfect the Butthead laugh despite being a fourteen year old girl, but it still was undeniably the impetus. Also: definitely not … Continue reading →

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cusco // cut short

Posted on November 17, 2018 by intercat5

So I don’t have a ton of pictures of Cusco itself, because I only spent three full days there, and the first was basically just attempting to hoard energy (and oxygen) enough to manage Machu Picchu the next, and then … Continue reading →

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lima // photodump

Posted on November 14, 2018 by intercat5

Man, I can’t believe it’s been five months since Lima. I think it was the first really huge city in South America I’d been in since Bogota, and it felt more like a “typical” big city, which I suppose has … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 7, 2018 by intercat5

Updates two days in a row? Yes! So Trujillo was a gorgeous but kinda pointless city; I only went there because I met this French dude in Bogota and met up with again in Ecuador, and he was like, you have … Continue reading →

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cuenca (sick as always)

Posted on November 5, 2018 by intercat5

Cuenca was so beautiful and I was so, so, so sick, and I don’t even know if I had bronchitis at this point. Anyway I’m flying to London on December 11 and then to Georgia and Armenia and Azerbaijan and … Continue reading →

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i heart baños

Posted on September 22, 2018 by intercat5

I honestly don’t remember why I decided to go from Quito to Baños de Agua Santa; I think it was just because it seemed like a vaguely interesting place to break up the long trip to Cuenca. Plus probably the … Continue reading →

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