Our trip started with a two-day stay in an AirBnb in the Barranca neighborhood of Lima. Weatherwise, it was not great, the hood was marginal, and my suitcase didn’t make it for two extra days. But we had some great Peruvian food in local restaurants, walked around the Miraflores neighborhood, and got ready for our tour…

Just after I got my suitcase back from the airline, we moved to our little hotel for the first night of our Intrepid tour. We had an initial briefing with Giscard, then he took us for a walking tour of downtown Lima (including a very packed city bus ride)…

That was it for Lima as we took a plane east to Puerto Maldonado and the Peruvian Amazon the very next day…