Hostels Arequipa Peru
Interested in spending more time in Puerto Maldonado, one of the most important cities in the Peruvian Amazon? Well, this might be your chance. Pirwa Maldonado is looking for help from English-speaking travelers during the afternoon or night shifts. In exchange for five hours of work, you will also receive breakfast and lunch. You’ll have free days for excursions and will be able to control your travel budget.
North of Lima, nearly at the border with Ecuador, one finds the small fishing town of Máncora in the sunniest region of Peru. The best sandy beach in Lima stretches for several kilometers, letting it feel more secluded during the daytime despite all the crowding in the town’s clubs at night. Over the last few years, its profile as a beach resort and party town has been rising exponentially. Weary trekkers who want to relax, warm up, and indulge in some light seafood after days of cold hikes and heavy Andean dishes flock to its beaches. Days are filled with sunbathing and surfing the consistently good waves, while the nights are filled with full moon parties. Kiteboarding, diving, and whale- and dolphin-watching are popular as well. (This time of year is when whales breed off the Peruvian coast!)
South America has a reputation of being difficult for vegetarians. Local markets boast an abundance of fresh produce and exotic fruit juices, but restaurant offerings are more limited. Sometimes, you’re simply limited to pizzas at touristic restaurants or rice served with sautéed vegetables and fries elsewhere. Luckily, La Paz has more to offer the hungry vegetarian traveler, if you know where to look.
Wondering how to spend this Halloween in Cusco, Peru? If you’re staying with us in one of our four hostels in Cusco, make sure you stop by the bar of Pirwa Colonial Hostel for a frighteningly good time at our annual Halloween party!
You can find Pirwa Colonial Hostel in Plaza San Francisco, just two blocks from Cusco’s main square, the Plaza de Armas.
The Tambopata – Candamo Reserved Zone was created in 1990 to protect 1.5 million hectares of rainforest and wetlands to the east and south of Puerto Maldonado, in the Amazon basin. It can be visited all year long and is a popular destination for travelers who want to visit its clay licks, which are some of the largest in the world and which attract hundreds of rare macaws and parrots as well as some mammal species. The reserve also possesses various world records when it comes to bird species (545 in only 5,500 hectares) and butterfly species (1122). The area is so diverse that a person can walk a mile along the rainforest of Tambopata – Candamo Reserve without encountering two trees of the same species.