Ella's Adventures Blog
The canyon rediscovered by accident
Here's a Colca Canyon fact. This canyon runs twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, carved out and terraced by cultures who were farming its slopes long before the Inca...
The canyon rediscovered by accident
Here's a Colca Canyon fact. This canyon runs twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, carved out and terraced by cultures who were farming its slopes long before the Inca...
The mountain named for a king struck by lightning
Peru's tallest mountain, at 6,768 metres, is the highest snow-covered peak anywhere in the world's tropics, and it gives its name to a national park holding the largest area of...
The mountain named for a king struck by lightning
Peru's tallest mountain, at 6,768 metres, is the highest snow-covered peak anywhere in the world's tropics, and it gives its name to a national park holding the largest area of...
The desert city being washed away by rain
Here's the Chan Chan fact that I still find cruelly ironic. This was once the largest adobe city ever built anywhere, capital of the Chimú civilisation, covering twenty square kilometres...
The desert city being washed away by rain
Here's the Chan Chan fact that I still find cruelly ironic. This was once the largest adobe city ever built anywhere, capital of the Chimú civilisation, covering twenty square kilometres...
The mountain that was hidden under its own ice
Vinicunca's famous stripes are genuinely ancient, laid down over millions of years through sedimentation and tectonic uplift. But almost nobody had ever actually seen them until barely the last decade....
The mountain that was hidden under its own ice
Vinicunca's famous stripes are genuinely ancient, laid down over millions of years through sedimentation and tectonic uplift. But almost nobody had ever actually seen them until barely the last decade....
Nobody quite knows why the macaws eat clay
Every morning near the Tambopata Research Center, hundreds of macaws and parrots, up to fifteen different species at once, gather at what's believed to be the world's largest known clay...
Nobody quite knows why the macaws eat clay
Every morning near the Tambopata Research Center, hundreds of macaws and parrots, up to fifteen different species at once, gather at what's believed to be the world's largest known clay...
The largest city no road has ever reached
Here's the Peruvian Amazon fact: Iquitos, the gateway city into this part of the jungle, is the largest city anywhere in the world with no road connecting it to the...
The largest city no road has ever reached
Here's the Peruvian Amazon fact: Iquitos, the gateway city into this part of the jungle, is the largest city anywhere in the world with no road connecting it to the...