Christian Jessen - A Dane starting business in South America (Santiago de Chile)
The Nazca Lines, Peru
Another must-see for many people when travelling in Peru, and South America in general, is the amazing Nazca Lines. Basically it is figures created in the desert around Nazca, which can only be seen from the air. It is estimated that the lines are created around 200 BC to 700 AD by the Nazca culture. [...]
The Machu Picchu ruins and the Inca trail, Cusco
The most famous thing in Peru is definitely the Machu Picchu ruins near the city of Cusco. Basically it is one of the biggest and most well-preserved Inca ruins in the world, and is a must-see if you travel through Peru. The Peruvian government is currently limiting the amount of people who can go to [...]
Studying Spanish in Cusco, Peru
I arrived to Cusco Monday morning, and met with Jude whom I studied Spanish with, in Sucre. We decided to take another week of Spanish lessons in Cusco since we felt we needed to get some more lessons about the verbs in the past. We left Sucre with the same level of Spanish, so it [...]
Isla del Sol in Lake Titicaca, Copacabana
Lake Titicaca is among the highest navigable lakes in the world, with its altitude of 3820 meter above sea level. It’s a huge lake that’s more than 230 km long, 97 km wide and has a lot of amazing history. The Incas believe that their first emperor rose from the Titicaca rock (Rock of the [...]
Carnival in Oruro, la Diablada
This weekend was the big carnival in Oruro, la Diablada, one of the biggest carnivals in the world. We left Sucre Thursday night, and got to the apartment we were staying in at Friday morning. Since it was impossible to book a hostel (we tried several times, but each time they cancelled our booking), we [...]
3 days left…
Time is running up, and I now only have 3 days left in Denmark. I still havent even bought my backpack, I havent paid the plane tickets from Santiago to Calama, and I still need to write to the language school and pay them in advance.. That and a hundred other things need to be done the following days, while I’m also spending time with friends and getting drunk as usual.
