Are/were you a backpacker???

Villavic · #1 06-07-2004, 04:45 PM

It's high season for travelers in Peru (I mean in the Andes, the mountains, not the beaches).

Lima is full of gringos again. (hope you know the meaning of green-go) Most of them backpackers spending few days in the coast capital waiting to take the bus or plane to the mountains.

I remember the last time I went to Cusco and did the Inca trail. Lot of travelers (not tourists, there's a difference!!) from the whole world. Europe (all countries), Israel, North, South and Central America, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, etc..

Did/Do you like to trave as backpacker? Or are you a more formal traveler?

darklinensuit · #2 06-07-2004, 04:54 PM

I've never carried a backpack as a student or as a traveler.

- Jake

jadegypsy · #3 06-07-2004, 11:41 PM

My physics teacher used to tell me I defied the laws of physics everytime I put my backpack on in high school.

tuigirl · #4 06-08-2004, 05:19 AM

ha...not a real backpacker as such, only one that put a pack on the back of my motorbike at some point (when I was a bit younger

)and then rode the length of NZ..ahh, yes, those were the crazy years...I did at one time too, arrive in OZ with just a backpack and a motorbike helmet (does that count?)

strandinthewind · #5 06-08-2004, 06:13 AM

Well, I am not a backpacker (no surprise there to many

) - BUT, in like 1999, I went to Lima, Iquitos, and up the Amazon and Nappo Rivers to deliver school supplies to the Yagua Indians. That was an AMAZING trip. AND, when we landed in Iquitos, the Pres. of Peru's plane was parked next to our plane. We saw him - he appeared to be of Asain descent which at the time caught me off guard. I did not make it to Cusco, which I wasnted to see. Maybe next time - although I hear a backpak is required for that hike