Cusco, Peru Travel Blogs

... put you on the TRAIN. Back to Ollyuntumbo and on the bikes again for a fast ride through the mountains and back to Cusco - finally arriving after dark. I promise to update with photo's of Macchu Picchu, but I have attached a few from my pocket cam. ...

A travel blog entry by johnorton
This is a top pick!

... whistle at our car for breaking the strike (I found out later that whistling like this is equivalent to our booing). Cusco was bigger than I'd imagined and the old city is lovely with the main square filled by 3 gorgeous churches. A ...

A travel blog entry by themurphys
This is a top pick!

Wow!  we spent today in Cusco walking around the Plaza De Armas, surrounded by 4 cathedrals and some amazing architecture. To our delight, there was the first McDonalds we have seen on the trip, so we stopped in for lunch before visiting the ...

A travel blog entry by johnorton
This is a top pick!

Ho K So after returning from our trek i woke in the night with a fever and stomach cramps....guessing it was something i ate.  So i spent the next full day and night led in bed resting up.  All better now, but i will take this chance to tell ...

A travel blog entry by thomaswguy
This is a top pick!

... Oh, and for those that remember the "white" and "brown" price discrepancy I found in Guatemala and Honduras, it's alive and well in Peru. Our bus tickets to Machu Picchu - $65. Locals who bought tickets right before us - $11. But I guess that's the way ...

A travel blog entry by dane
This is a top pick!

... Art Museum. This place is filled with priceless aritifacts from all the different cultures that developed up and down Peru. Some notable culture include Inca, Chimu, Nazca etc. The artifacts are mostly pottery with beautiful painting and carvings ...

A travel blog entry by andrewy
This is a top pick!

... I couldn't have expected to escape the epidemic on wheels unscathed. So today we decided to take it easy and stroll around Cusco. It was a gorgeous day. And since the busses, trains, and taxis didn't run yesterday, the air was clean and the view ...

A travel blog entry by dane
This is a top pick!

Okay...... After one and half day of long traveling, I am ready for some sight seeing. This morning I woke up around 8 am, ate a quick breakfast and fell back asleep until the hotel manage woke me up that my ride is here. On the flight to Cuzco I ...

A travel blog entry by andrewy
This is a top pick!

... droppingly beautiful journey! Santa Teresa is a tiny village on the Rio Urumbamba at the far end of the train track from Cusco. The original village was built right on the rivers edge but a few years ago it was completely destroyed and washed away by ...

A travel blog entry by dospollos
This is a top pick!

... And hats. But somehow Bev and I managed to stay good sports about it the whole time. Very fortunate. We made it into Cusco a little before 5:00 this evening. Cusco is the capital of the ancient Inca world. It's fantastic. The scenery coming in was ...

A travel blog entry by dane
This is a top pick!

... to get simply stunning, with deep valleys and rivers, along with winding roads, which were just fun to ride. We arrived at Cusco late afternoon and headed to the "Fallen Angel" for dinner.  This is a funky restaurant with tables made from bathtubs ...

A travel blog entry by johnorton
This is a top pick!

... with a vastly inflated price. Here are some of the financial facts (all for return journey): - Cheapest possible train ticket Cusco to Agua Calientes: USD$68 (GBP40.00) - Cheapest possible train ticket Ollantaytambo to Agua Calientes: USD$44 (GBP25 ...

A travel blog entry by rachel_john
This is a top pick!

... (strike is over) and heading to Aguas Caliente overnight and then up to Machu Picchu at around 5am to beat the crowded train from Cusco.  I am told there is no internet in Aguas Caliente so I will update when we get back to Cusco the next day, unless ...

A travel blog entry by johnorton
This is a top pick!

Ello! Just before leaving Lima we enjoyed some good chicken, some cocktails and a windowless taxi ride home!! managed to sort out a bus to Cuzco, and were told it was going to be 23 hours, thought this was a bit much as the first bus company could ...

A travel blog entry by thomaswguy
This is a top pick!

... to some Inca ruins and looked down onto the city of Cusco. Lovely. We also saw the 20 foot Jesus statue that watches over Cusco, a little like Rio. Tomorrow we're getting out of Cusco and taking a day trip to Pisac. It's the other cultural center of ...

A travel blog entry by dane
This is a top pick!

... . We were eight in total - Alex and I, plus... Ada and Hedda, two Estonian girls doing some volunteer work with children in Cusco before they start university next year. Estonia seems to be a really nice place and meeting/talking to Ada and Hedda has ...

A travel blog entry by alexndean
This is a top pick!

... we followed. The insuing overnight bus trip took us 18 hrs in total and climbed some 13,000 feet into the Andes. Cusco is in a cold, touristy, glamorous, high up and surrounded by jungle. We immediatly reacted to the contrast to Pisco. Rarely have ...

A travel blog entry by hancocjb
This is a top pick!

Inca Trail Day Four Day 4: Wiņay Huayna - Machu Picchu - Cusco (B) After breakfast, have a very early start to arrive in time for sunrise at Machu Picchu. After a one hour walk through the forest towards the Inti Punku or Gate of the Sun, also known as ...

A travel blog entry by vickersontour
This is a top pick!

O-oh - Friday the Thirteenth!! As you can imagine, today was an open day after the last four days on the Inca Trail. After a good lie in and a late breakfast, we handed some laundry in and got as many photo's uploaded as possible - of the Inca Trail ...

A travel blog entry by vickersontour
This is a top pick!

... 10500 feet and our campsite Wakawasi has 12460 feet. That is HIGH !!!  Good thing is I am already quite acclimatized at Cusco for two days plus I took my Acetazolamide pills to help out. The up hill trek was quite strenous full of dirt/rocks/pebbles ...

A travel blog entry by andrewy
This is a top pick!

August 5, Day 2 of my trek. After surviving the longest night ever, I woke up around 6 am finding everying around my campsite frozen solid and covered in frost.   Burrrr. That was a cold night. After packing my things away, I walked into the ...

A travel blog entry by andrewy
This is a top pick!

... around with a few fellow travellers we met on the way down through Ecuador and we have all been excited about Cuscoīs culinary possibilities. It's a great place just to hang around "acclimatising" (again it's over 3300m) and indulging in western delights. ...

A travel blog entry by caznjasonescape
This is a top pick!

... cheaper place with the only downside that it is up a massive hill so you have to stop every 2 minutes to catch your breath. Cusco is very pretty and colonial with a few amazing Incan walls thrown in for good measure - how they fitted them so well I will ...

A travel blog entry by alexndean
This is a top pick!

... trip resulting in me being full of the flu was definitely NOT in the plan. Guess which route I took..... So, after arriving in Cusco and hooking up with my friend Tom (who I met in Colombia) we proceeded to hit all the bars in town and basically make ...

A travel blog entry by monkeymouse74
This is a top pick!

Well today isn't much to write about except food. I got up to watch England destroy our amphibian enemies from across the trench this morning (10am our time). Unable to win the six nations, there's still a lot of satisfaction in beating our green hopping ...

A travel blog entry by vickersontour
This is a top pick!

... my usual MO, and start by going up some steep steps, to gain a better view of the Plaza, and to see how tired I would get! Cusco is surrounded by mountains, most of which are built on, so you can wander up, and it is a very pretty city to look down ...

A travel blog entry by shaunduvall
This is a top pick!

... three entries are a bit dull for you. After bacon & eggs at the hostel we went for a walk around the main square in Cusco and some of it's side streets. There were plenty of little markets, but they all basically sell the same sort of stuff. On the ...

A travel blog entry by vickersontour
This is a top pick!

... nbsp; Anywayz...after the ruins we grabbed a train to Ollyuntumbo.  We arrived and picked up a taxi for a 2 hour drive back to cusco and our hostel.  The driver practised his english on us and we practised our spanish on him.   Overall an ...

A travel blog entry by thomaswguy
This is a top pick!

... it is sold or bartered for corn and potatoes. We got a bus home not far from there, very tired. The last days in Cusco involved hanging out with the other travellers we'd met in South America (we'd all converged on Cusco for the 24th). Our South ...

A travel blog entry by dacraic
This is a top pick!

... . We also got to see a fair amount of the town in the process in twilight and the dark which is beautiful. Cusco is incredibly colonial with fantastic old buildings everywhere and none of the horrid concrete blocks in the centre as in other S American ...

A travel blog entry by emanddave
This is a top pick!