Author - Anand Parameswaran

Huacachina – The Desert Oasis in Peru – Beyonder

Huacachina is the desert oasis where the dunes roar, the sunsets bleed gold, and your inner child steals the wheel... Some places feel like scenes from a fantasy novel. Others feel like you accidentally walked into a music video. And then there’s Huacachina — a mirage that forgot to disappear. A shimmering emerald lagoon ringed by palm trees....

Pisco – The Spirit of Peru – Beyonder

Pisco, the spirit of Peru is born from grapes, history and a little cheekiness... Of course, most alcohols come with a backstory. Pisco comes with a full-blown origin myth, a family feud, a colonial adventure, a linguistic joke, and a flavor profile that can knock the blues out of your bones in exactly three sips. It is...

The Ballestas Islands – Peru’s Mini-Galapagos – Beyonder

Ballestas Islands are Peru's Mini-Galapagos with a major attitude. If the Galápagos Islands are the PhD-holding evolutionary scholars of South America, then the Ballestas Islands are their rockstar cousins — loud, messy, hilarious, wild, unapologetic, and far easier to reach. They don’t pretend to be subtle. Nor do they whisper. And they don’t behave. They explode with...

Candelabra of Paracas – Peru and the ancient India connection – Beyonder

Candelabra of Paracas - A Trident in the Sand, A Whisper from an Ancient time, and a Strange Echo from the Ramayana. There are landmarks you visit with curiosity. And then there are landmarks that stare back at you, raise one eyebrow, and ask, “So… what do YOU think happened here?” The Candelabra of Paracas is definitely the...

Incas of Peru – Beyonder

The Incas - their World, their Philosophy, their Gods and their Genius are truly a fascinating subjects for anyone visiting or keen on visiting Peru. This is the civilization that shaped Peru History usually remembers empires for their wars. The Incas, however, are remembered for their wisdom, their engineering, their cosmic awareness, and their astonishing ability...

Peruvian Amazon – A short sojourn – Beyonder

Peruvian Amazon is where the Earth exhales, the river listens, and the forest decides what part of you it wants to reveal. Most places make you feel like a visitor. The Amazon, however, makes you feel like a trespasser who has been grudgingly granted temporary access to a world that existed long before humans learned how to...

History of Peru – A Beyonder Take

The History of Peru is one that moves from Ancient Civilizations to Conquistadors toa Modern Cultural Powerhouse. Peru is not a country. It is a timeline disguised as a landscape. A museum built on mountains and rivers. Its a civilization that has reinvented itself across thousands of years — absorbing, adapting, resisting, transforming. It is the Andes whispering,...

Vinicunca – The Rainbow Mountain of Peru – Beyonder

Vinicunca in Peru is a mountain where Colors, Altitude, Myth, and Madness Collide. There are mountains you climb because they’re beautiful. Then there are mountains you climb because they’re famous. And then there’s Vinicunca, the Rainbow Mountain — a mountain you climb because your ego refuses to say no, even though your lungs are quietly filing a...

Peru – where the Earth remembers – Beyonder

Peru is where the Earth remembers, the Mountains whisper, and the Amazon breathes in your ear - its not not like other places… Some places you visit… Some places you “do”. And then there’s Peru — a country that politely takes your itinerary, folds it into a paper plane, and sends it sailing into the Urubamba wind...

Mount Kailash–Manasarovar: Where Heaven Keeps Its Address Public

Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar is a trip that quietly chooses you - it is not a journey that you plan… A stark white pyramid rising out of nowhere, a mythical lake that glows impossible shades of turquoise, and a landscape so bare it feels like God forgot to add the furniture. And yet, somehow, this...

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