My Peru Travels
A Day by Day Description
50 years ago as a ‘young’ geologist I spent several months working in Peru
This website aims to describe my travels and experiences, taken from my diary and memories.
Each Post will describe a day with linked photos and maps – these will be available as I process the events of each day
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NOTE – August 20th Post edited to adjust overlapping photo
August 24th Quince Mil Area Day 21
The day in Qince Mil started cloudy, but was sunny later. After breakfast at 8:30 Eric, and Jun, our driver, went off looking for a blacksmith or repair shop to get the LWB Land Rover spring fixed as the rough road the previous day had taken it’s toll on the […]
August 23rd Ocongate to Quince Mil Day 20
An early rise (6:00) and a clear day but chilly, breakfast at a cafe in the Ocongate town square. Finally got going at 7:45 and set off on the road to Quince Mil (literally fifteen thousand’) We were taking measurements along the way now with the detector on a short […]
August 22nd Cusco to Ocongate Day 19
Cloudy at first but clear later, I think I had a good might in a decent bed after a lot of work the previous day.. The first job was to repack the Land Rovers, reconnect the electronics and check them out. Once all was ready we set off from Cusco […]
August 21st Day 18 Cusco
Cusco was cool and sunny in the morning, but we had rain in the afternoon. We took the opportunity to sort out the Land Rovers and for me to work on the electronics. I needed to see if I could fix one of the gamma detectors and also clean the […]
Selected Photos from Days 15 to 17
The Wnding Road
Nazca Lines
Lan Rovers in the Mountains
Sand Dunes
Barren Hillsides
For more photos see – here
South America – Peru
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August 3rd – Departure and Arrival
To understand the background to the ‘day’ posts read the pages under ‘About’. Getting up early (5:30) on August 3rd, I took a taxi to Heathrow Airport (I didn’t live far away then). I met my colleague Uisdean at the airport, and at 12:05 took off on a BA (British […]
August 4th – Lima Day1
Our first breakfast, with a rather different menu from one in the UK, and the menu was in Spanish of course. ‘What is desayuno….’? Papaya & mango in fruit salad. Being a 4-star hotel there were concessions to English speakers though with a translation and some recognisable items like pancakes […]
August 5th Lima Day 2
When we left the hotel in the morning, found the weather was cool and overcast again. We travelled by taxi (relatively cheap at the time in large American cars usually) to San Isidro again with the consultant, where a Telex was waiting, informing me that the delivery address for the […]
August 6th Lima Day 3
Still rather overcast in LimaI. After breakfast I travelled to IPEN with Eric Bosc, to collect a representative who would help with customs release, then on to the airport. It then took 2 and a half hours to get my ‘personal’ box out of customs. This involved going round multiple […]
August 7th Lima Day 4
At last, the sun came out in Lima, so warmer and provided a slightly better view across the city. Eric Bosc arrived at the hotel and told us he had chickenpox (probably picked up from his children)! As both Uisdean and I had had chickenpox in the past, we carried […]
August 8th Lima Day 5
Back to overcast skies in Lima. Being a Sunday with the office closed, we (Eric, consultant, Uisdean and me) took the chance to visit a local pre-Columbian archaeological site relatively close to Lima (40 km away). This was Pachacamac, (‘the site was first settled around A.D. 200 and was named […]
05/09/2026 @ 6:11 pm
Wow Phil, love all the photos, what a fantastic record of life in the late 70’s