Ep. 1118: Trekking in Peru Revisited - Daisy and Robert Kunstaetter
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
If you like deep travel in amazing places, then this episode is for you. Daisy and Robert Kunstaetter take us on amazing accounts of trekking all over Peru. We talk about mountains, food, local cultures, jungles, grass swinging bridges, generosity, and earthquakes. What makes it all the better is that Daisy and Robert have recorded all the routes and know how in guide books so you can enjoy treks in Peru and Ecuador as well. This was one of my favorite episodes from about eight years ago. It is well worth the revisit!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:19.9 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:22.4 | Hi friends, you're going to love this revisited episode. It is episode number 1118. It's from |
| 0:29.3 | seven or eight years ago now. And this is not your Red Bull crazy athlete episode. This episode is about deep travel, is what I would like to call it, |
| 0:41.9 | really getting into the culture and the architecture and the geology and the geography of an area. |
| 0:50.0 | And those areas are primarily Peru we talk about, but also Ecuador to some degree. |
| 0:55.5 | It is a beautiful deep dive, and I think you're going to love it. |
| 0:59.4 | So thanks for listening today as we visit with Daisy and Robert Koenstetter, |
| 1:05.0 | and they share their decades of living and riding travel guides in these amazing areas. |
| 1:15.2 | Hello, friends. Kurt here, thanks again for listening to the Adventure Sports |
| 1:18.9 | podcast today. I have a wonderful interview today with a couple who live in Ecuador, |
| 1:26.5 | actually in Vilcambaba. |
| 1:28.5 | I didn't say that quite right. |
| 1:29.7 | I'm going to try that again. |
| 1:31.0 | In Vilcabamba, Ecuador. |
| 1:33.7 | Very good, Kurt. |
| 1:34.9 | They've lived there for 14 years. |
| 1:37.6 | And they are riders who write trekking guides for Ecuador and Peru. |
| 1:43.6 | And so I am really excited to visit with them today about life in South America and adventure |
| 1:50.0 | in South America. |
| 1:52.0 | Robert and Daisy Koonstetter. |
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