The best Peru Travel Guides: Reddit reviews

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What you're looking for is commonly called a "Field Guide." Often field guides are devoted to a particular kind of wildlife; trees or mammals or insects, and field guides to birds are very common. Birding is big, big business.

There are certainly a wide variety of field guides to the birds of South America from Peterson, Helm, Princeton, and others. Princeton has a field guide specifically for the "Birds of Peru," both as a paperback book and as a laminated fold-out pocket field guide.

Amazon carries "A Field Guide to the Mammals of Central America and Southeast Mexico" by Fiona A. Reid. This points me to a book called "The New Neotropical Companion", which may be of interest.

This may be more what you're looking for: "Travellers' Wildlife Guides Peru":

https://www.amazon.com/Travellers-Wildlife-Guides-David-Pearson/dp/1566565456/ref=pd_sim_14_3

> In this book is all the information you need to find, identify, and learn about Peru's magnificent animal and plant life.

I expect if you visit a visitor center for a major nature reserve in Peru, you'll find a number of field guides for sale which are not available in the US.

They optioned a book for the show

https://www.amazon.com/101-Places-Get-cked-Before/dp/1250035589

Friends of Gabrus talked about it here

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cub21ueWNvbnRlbnQuY29tL2QvcGxheWxpc3QvNzdiZWRkNTAtYTczNC00MmFhLTljMDgtYWQ4NjAxM2NhMGY5L2YyZmU1NzM3LTgwMmEtNDU5MS04YWI0LWFkODgwMTY3YzYzYi85ZmQ3MjdkZS0wOTYxLTQ4NzMtYmRmOS1hZDg4MDE2N2M2NDkvcG9kY2FzdC5yc3...

Also on a side note if you don’t have it already buy Peru: the cookbook I worked at a restaurant that did a lot of South American type dishes and I loved making stuff from that book.

Huaraz in Peru is a hub for cheap trekking. There are 2 big mountains.

1. Cordillera Blanca - The most popular trek is the Santa Cruz trail.

2. Cordillera Huayhuash - Huayhuash circuit takes 7-10 days.

I highly recommend this book by Trailblazer.

https://www.amazon.com/Perus-Cordilleras-Blanca-Huayhuash-Trailblazer/dp/1905864639

Hi, I'm very much in the same situation. Currently planning a 3 month trip for summer 2016 from Venezuela around to Ecuador, Peru, Chile then back through Bolivia to Brazil. My plans are very much still in their infancy but i however have most of my gear and a ton of maps that i picked up from amazon (most of which are nat geo travel maps, would recommend). I really want to visit the amazon for a period of time, preferably to spend time with a small tribe that still practice bushcraft and not farm cattle for McDonalds, as well as the obvious other sites along the way such as machu pichu, the nazca lines and salt plains of bolivia. I however have yet to look into the legality of wild camping in the various aforementioned countries but as you said even looking through reddit there seems to be minimal information regarding this topic, despite it's popularity. I know that none of this is by any means an answer to your question but please feel free to pm me anytime if you're interested in sharing information, i.e. gear, routes etc. Good luck! Edit: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Peru-adv-Adventure-Map-Numbered/dp/1566955483/ref=wl_mb_wl_huc_mrai_3_dp this is the link to the peru nat geo map, can find the rest from here

Go to Honduras! supposed to be fantastic diving and parties there. Check out a book called 101 places to get fucked up before you die. Really good info in there.

http://www.amazon.com/101-Places-Get-cked-Before/dp/1250035589

I recommend reading the book Walking the Amazon by Ed Stafford. During his time spent walking every mile of the Amazon he comes across a great deal of indigenous tribes and details the experience he has with them.

I want to add the book Boozehound

There's a certain romantic quality to spirits and I think the most light is shed by reading this book.

I own both the other books (one of which was a textbook for class hell fucking yea)