The Big Field Trip

Finally I have vanquised the bug in our moviemaker program (or at least learned how to side-step it) and videos are coming easilly. We’ll be caught up in no time.
The two videos below are from days three and four of the Gran Vilaya trek near Chachapoyas, Peru from last October. We were cold and rain-soaked, [...]

This is a video of the second day of our 4 day trek into the countryside around the town of Chachapoyas, Peru. We hiked from the Valle Belen, up into the remote cloud forest to explore recently discovered ruins of an ancient Chachapoya city called Pirquilla, and then down into the small, isolated village of [...]

The Chachapoyas were a group of people who lived in the northern part of Peru. They were feared fighters and their culture started around 800 AD. The Chachapoyas were conquered by the Incas around 1470 AD. Chachapoyas probably means either “people of the woods” or “people of the clouds”.  The Chachapoyas interacted with cultures from [...]

On the second day of our trek we woke up early to go on our six hour hike. It was sad to leave the caramel colored horse behind, but luckily we brought another horse to bring our baggage. I even got to ride the horse. It rained hard and light for most of the day. [...]

     My family and I went on a four day trek to see ruins. Our guide, Edgar, went with us. We hiked to Karajia to see sarcophagi. They were on a big boulder, way above us. If we went right below them we couldn’t see them because they were on a ledge. The sarcopahgi looked [...]

We are currently in the town of Chachapoyas located in the mountains of Northern Peru. We have been here for almost one week.

From the big field trip

We began our exploration of this area by hiking to Catarata Gocta, the third highest waterfall in the world. It was a tough trail, but we were rewarded by [...]