Travelling Around the World – My Final Week

Week five is here! It has been five weeks of virtual travelling, and I have seen so many amazing new places! This week’s plan was as follows:

Week 5: “Travel” to Peru and Brazil 

Challenges:

• Virtually visit one tourist attraction/interesting spot each day!
• Choose what you think is the most beautiful spot in both Peru and Brazil. 

Now, to be perfectly honest, I never did very well with the “visit one tourist attraction/interesting spot each day”, much to my chagrin. However, like last week, I did virtually “visit” seven tourist spots, just not on different days of the week.

The first place I decided to “visit” was Machu Picchu in Peru. These gorgeous ruins make a breathtaking scene laying in the Andes Mountains three hundred meters above the Urubamba River. Something that I found was very interesting about Machu Picchu is that there is a secret temple nearby. This temple is called Temple of the Moon, and it was built on Huayna Picchu.

To get to this secret temple, one must traverse the ‘Stairs of death of Huayna Picchu’. There are 183 meters of these steep, cliff-side steps which one must use in order to reach the Temple of the Moon.

The next place I decided to visit was Ica and the Sand Dunes at Huacachina. Here, there is a beautiful resort built in an oasis surrounded by massive sand dunes. Visitors to this resort can enjoy sand boarding or riding in dune buggies in the giant sand dunes nearby.

The third place I decided to travel to was Barranco. This city drew my attention immediately, with its bright colours and beautiful foliage! It is a very artsy-looking city, complete with street art, coffee shops, and picturesque streets.

One of the most interesting places that I visited virtually was the Puente de Los Suspiros, or Bridge of Sighs. Here it is said that if one makes a wish and holds one’s breath the entire way across the bridge, that your wish will come true!

After Barranco, I headed over to another stunningly colourful city – Pelourinho in Brazil. This beautiful city is full of historical buildings, including some lovely churches and monasteries.

I also decided to visit the city of Ipanema on the “same day” since it looked so beautiful with its white beaches, as well as fascinating-looking rocky mountains in the background. The pictures of this beach are absolutely stunning, and were fun to peruse!

The next place I visited was Fernando de Noronha in Brazil. This beautiful archipelago is composed of twenty-one islands/islets, and is found 354 km off the Brazilian shore. I found the colour of the water particularly stunning. The bright blues of the ocean contrast very nicely with the dark, rocky islands that dot the Atlantic’s waters.

Lençóis Maranhenses National Park was next up on my virtual tour through Brazil. This spot is truly such an amazing-looking area. Its soft-looking white sands stretch far even as they surround azure pools of rain water.

My final final destination for this “trip” was Bonita, Brazil. Freshwater there has beautiful tropical fish, which greatly interested me, as I feel like it would be so interesting to get a close look at tropical fish! Also, I found a cave in Bonita, Gruta do Lago Azul, very fascinating, as it is more than two hundred feet deep, and looks amazing! A very interesting fact about this cave is that it has prehistoric fossils in it!

As for the second travel challenge, the most beautiful spot I found in Peru was Cordillera Blanca. This beautiful collection of mountains and valleys caught my attention immediately, and I quickly decided that this was the most beautiful spot that I had seen in Peru on my “travels”.

The most beautiful spot I found in Brazil was Iguaçu Falls. The breathtaking group of 247 waterfalls most definitely immediately qualified for the most beautiful spot that I saw in Brazil during my virtual travels!

I am so glad to have been able to travel the world virtually throughout these last five weeks! I sincerely hope you have had a wonderful time following (and hopefully travelling!) along with me over these last several weeks!