A girl dressed in the Huaraz valley style

The guide installs a number of "chapter headings":

Background to travel in Perú

Nature: geography, climate, ecology.

Society: history, religion, economy, society.

Getting around: basic facts, health, security.

Treks and routes

Routes: 25 detailed routes profusely illustrated.

Sports: mountain walking, fishing, caving, surf, cycling.

Maps: some huge, some interactive; satellite.

Music, food
and language

Original tracks recorded from coast, Andes, jungle.

Cuisine: overview, glossary, hundreds of recipes.

Spanish: spoken & grammar. (English version only)

The guide is very large, so this gives only a hint of what it offers. If you want more detail on the individual chapter headings, you can find a full site map for the guide here. You can also see an example which has been cut from an individual route guide here.

A detailed site map

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This is a map of the main documents in the Trek!Peru guide. There are, of course, many more detailed resources which are not shown.


Choices at the 'top' level Second level menu choices

Information Overview
General help
Introduction » Basic facts » Basic information on Peru
» Getting around
» Costs and money
» Getting along with Peruvians
» Shopping, food and fun
» Peruvian society » The peoples of Peru
» The history of Peru
» How Peru works today
» The religions of Peru
» The land » The geography of Peru
» Peru's extraordinary ecology

Travelling About Peru » Preparation » Choosing your preferred travel style
» Trekking in depth
» The seasons
» Safety » Managing risk: crises, health, crime
» Interests » Sport in Peru
» Antiquities in Peru
» Bird watching
» Butterflies and insects
» Orchids in Peru
Routes, maps » The maps » Interactive route selector

A small part of a typical trekking map

» Peru to the Caribbean
» Satellite panorama
» Basic topography
» Archaeology and history
» Ecology and national parks
» Cordillera Blanca road map
» Cordillera Blanca landsat
»
Cordillera Blanca trekking
» Cordillera Blanca panorama
» Cusco road map
» Cusco landsat image
» Machu Picchu map
» Arequipa road map
» Arequipa landsat image
» The routes » Walking route, Cordillera Blanca

The 25 routes create a network that covers accessible Perú

» Walking routes, Cusco
» Walking routes, Colca cañon
» To Colca cañon
» To Cotahuasi cañon
» Arequipa city
» South to Tacna
» Cusco to Puno
» Cusco city and region
» Cusco to Madre de Dios
» Cusco to Abancay, Andamarca
» Pisco to Ayacucho
» Ayacucho to Huancayo
» Lima to Pisco, Nazca, Arequipa
» Cañete to Huancayo, Satipo
» Metropolitan Lima
» Lima to Huancayo
» Huancayo to Atalaya
» Atalaya to Cusco
» Junin to Tingo Maria , Huaraz
» Tingo Maria to Pucallpa, Tarapoto
» Lima to Trujillo
» Huaraz and its treks
» Cross country to Cajamarca
» Lambayeque to Chachapoyas
» North to Tumbes
» Piura to Moyabamba, Tarapoto
» Iquitos and the parks of Amazonas
» Search the routes through by jumping through the supporting images

Background Spanish language » Spoken phrases (English version only)
» A basic Spanish grammar
» A simple Spanish vocabulary
Music in Peru » Coastal music
» Music from the sierra
» Music from the jungle areas
Food in Peru » Introduction, glossary
» Soups
» Main dishes
» Sweet courses
About us, » Mail and web site
contractual » Contractual issues
» About the Trek!Peru team


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An example of a route guide

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The twenty five routes cover all of accessible Perú. Each is illustrated with large numbers of full screen photographs. These are organised into a series of photo-essays, which take you through anything between eight and more than a hundred full screen images.

Below, we show a clip that is taken from the guide that leads North-East from Cusco into the deep jungle. The symbols which you can see on the the left of text the accompany you wherever you go in the guide. They perform functions such as printing out the section, jumping elsewhere in the guide or bookmarking the page. The small image that is inset into the text (of the Plaza de Armas in Quillabamba) is explained below.

The little picture which is embedded in the text is an example of 'gateway' into a supporting series of photographs. Below, you can see what this image looks like at its full size, which you acccess in the guide simply by clicking on this little image. Once you have done this, you are invited to work your way through a chain of related pictures. Each of them offers the simple controls that you can see at the top left and, usually, some words of explanation.


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