Peru Travel Blogs - Page 8

Peru was always one of my dream countries and it is true to say, it lived up to my expectations and more too. Machu Picchu is mystical and sacred.

I left Sunday in the wee hours of the morning. My daughter Sarah dropped me off. One of the perks of having a teen daughter. She can finally chauffer me around for once. Sarah walked with me into the airport and I had a vague guilty feeling since this is the first time I have traveled while Sarah i…

Machu Picchu, Cuzco, Aguas Calientes, Chinchero, Ollantaytambo and Urubamba.

ANDREI - Had to bid Nicola farewell as she was due to return to England while Kerry and I met up with Budget Expeditions tour in the evening.  Tears were shed after she left to hook up with her friend Gemma and we had to get used to travelling without her. After, we had another little wander …

  Why Lachay does own so many differents diversity of species?? Because Lachay has 3 types of altitudinal zones  It goes from 300 mt over the sea until over 700 mts. Best time to watch the wildlife is in the early morning and at late in the afternoons. If you walk on silence you w…

Doing the Gringo trail

Last night was very interesting... we went out to dinner at Los Delfines - The Dolphins. Was a very posh meal along side a window to a swimming pool maybe 1/2 to 1/3 the size of the 50m outdoor pool at the Lido, with two live dolphins. It was rather curious having them swim up along side your …

Fly in to Lima Int'l Airport. Our flight landed at around 10:30pm. We had reserved Hostal Residencial Victor and a ride to the hostel. It cost us $10  to ride for about 15 minutes, so it wasn't bad. However the hostel was horrible! Looked like the worst neighborhood in Lima. Hostel was be…

Getting in to Cusco early morning after a harsh times in Bolivia.. after getting in the hostel we had some rest . What a difference from other places seen so far in South America, one can surly see how much more it is directed towards tourism everywhere people offer things to sell to you..even whi…

We arrived in Lima around 11:00 PM and since we had just brought backpacks as carry-on we wasted no time and exchanged some money in the airport so we could pay the taxi-found the taxies recommend by GAP and took off to our hotel where we were to meet the rest of our group.   Got to the small…

So it was about 8 in the morning when started the steep stair climb up to the gate at Machu Picchu.  The steps seemed to be normal in height, but after a few minutes the steps were just too small, about four inches high.  I don't know what's worse, too high or too low but it became a…

Did I ever talk about the parades.... well in our independence day use to have sorts of parades, the military (most important) and then the privates one. One important is from , well it used to be, the biggest mall from Peru, and the owners were peruvian.... since 2 years not anymore, but the curre…

Two weeks in Peru. Hanging out in Iquitos, boating and canoeing (And swimming!) the Amazon river. Visiting two remote villages and getting to know the people.

WOWEEE, I am alive and totally loving the fact that i saw the sunrise this morning! I have just had some of the craziest and more fulfilling stuff happen too me in the past four days than i can recall ever happening too me and even better is the fact that i got to see one of the true seven won…

Spent 10 days. Didn't want to leave!