by Vas Mylko, Roman Bilusiak
Today we are releasing Peru for curious travelers. “Nazca lines, Palpa flat-topped mountains, stargate Aramu Muru always thrilled me” — Vas recalls. Modern science says that Nazca lines and figures are sacred sites where people of the desert prayed for the rain 1500 years ago. But many modern people tend to believe in flying over the desert, runways and landing pads built by the aliens from space, teleportation at Aramu Muru…
With Curiosio you are searching for the best possible trip plan for your requirements and desires in the astronomically enormous solution space. It is not a search in the catalog of package tours. It is a making of the unique tour specifically for you, according to the information you communicated to the system.
You can plan your own road trip in Peru by points, duration, budget. Enter what you know — the starting point, finishing point [can be the same], desired waypoints between them, dates, budget, travelers, car, and hit [GET TRIP] button. If you know only where you are starting and finishing and how many of you — enter only that, and hit [GET TRIP] to see trip plans to start with. Then, you can modify any trip plan to fine-tune your search.
Intro
Peru is a special country for us. “Years ago I selected Peru from ~200 countries to visualize the original concept of Curiosio” — Vas continues.
Peru is diverse — from the deserts to rainforest without roads (part of Loreto department), from flats to high mountains, from heat to ice. Nature is rich. The culture is rich. The heritage is rich. Peru won multiple travel awards during recent years. Peru is big. Here is a juxtaposition of Peru over the United States and Western Europe.
We selected several cool travel stories and made them interactive. It allowed us to test and validate the density and quality of the knowledge graph. It allows you to take any of those trips for inspiration, education, modification. We made one Curiosio Originals trip.
Road Trip Across Peru Including Machu Picchu
“…the fact that I have never been south of the equator, and the idea to drive through the Andes Mountain Range was too much to resist. Yes, we decided driving to Machu Picchu from Lima was the most adventurous and genuine way to truly experience what these former Incan lands had to offer.” Boundless Brooks.
Curiosio keeps Machu Picchu in Aguas Calientes. So be careful when you are planning a trip from Lima to Machu Picchu and back to Lima. Enter these points in the search box:
We are going to implement a search by POIs somewhere in Beta14 or so. Meanwhile, we assure you that if you put sufficient duration and budget then such places as Machu Picchu will be proposed automatically. Though you could skip it as it is usually covered in fog:)
Moche Route
“The Moche Route is a tourist destination that begins in the Peruvian city of Trujillo in what once was the seat of power of the Moche culture known as The Temples of the Sun and the Moon and then goes through a series of places that were part of the kingdoms Moche and Chimu.” Wikipedia.
4x4 Road Travel Peru
Landcruising Adventure published a cool two-part travel story about how they crossed Peru on the way from Bolivia to Ecuador. Here is Part I, here is Part II. They had to make a detour to Chile to extend the visa. We took the main segment between Cusco and Lima and made it interactive. This is a 4x4 drive.
Road Trip in Northern Peru
“We want to see ancient ruins, not busloads of tour groups. In recent years, the addition of Machu Picchu, Cuzco, and the Sacred Valley to the new bucket list has translated into a crush of more than 4,000 visitors to the famed site each day in the high season. On top of that is a new government mandate that requires travelers to enter with an official guide at one of two designated daily times — a bit of a buzzkill, if a necessary evil.” Condé Nast Traveler.
“Which is why we decided to head north to the even older and lesser known lost pre-Incan city of Chachapoyas, with its remote cliff tombs and jungle-draped fortresses.” Condé Nast Traveler.
Obscure Southern Peru
We took cool, hidden, and unusual things to do in the south of Peru from Atlas Obscura and threw them onto the algorithm. Got a curious trip. You will find the Uros people living on floating reed islands in Lake Titicaca, an abandoned Incan construction project Aramu Muru left behind a mysterious “doorway.”, the world’s largest clay lick where parrots gather to snack, La Rinconada gold mine…
While doing this we thought: “what if we allow a user-traveler to create such trips based on Atlas Obscura?” If there are POIs from AO then favor them, and fulfill with other POIs where AO absent. And we came up with an Obscure theme. Stay tuned for Beta13, which will have some cool themes, and don’t forget to follow your curiosity!
