Gracias Perou y Ecuador

January 27^th, 2022 

Well, all good things come to an end.  It’s been 95 awesome days in Peru and Ecuador.  As is usual with backpacking, I visited many places, did a lot of different activities and met some awesome people.  Before leaving Paracas, I did a mental recall of the trip and I could remember almost every single day, where I stayed and what I did.  That’s what I love about travelling.  When I teach paragliding and do tandem flights in the summer, I do love it, but the days seem hard to discern between one and the next as they are fairly similar.  That’s one of the main reasons that I quit my IT job.  I couldn’t tell one year from another except for what 2 week holiday I took.  That’s not a way to live.

Here are some highlights:

Paragliding in Lima

Paragliding in Paracas

Flying over the Nazca Lines

Gorgeous skies in Arequipa

The floating islands of Lake Titicaca

Machu Picchu of course

Making new friends

Banos, Ecuador

Paragliding in Banos

The Devil's Cauldron Waterfalls

Volcanic caldera in the Galapagos Islands

Scuba diving with hammerhead sharks, rays, turtles and sea lions in the Galapagos

Quito

Swinging above Quito

Straddling the equator

Near Huaraz in Peru

Laguna 69

Monkeys!

And big snakes...

But I’m ready to return to Canada, my home.  Having a regular bed and not being constantly on the road is also nice.  I do enjoy the current lifestyle I have.  Six months of intensive teaching and tandems at the Freedom Flight School, two and a half months of a part time job of doing tandems at Revelstoke’s ski hill and three months to explore another part of the world.  I feel very fortunate.

 

Where to next?!?