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Long bus rides

A travel blog entry by markgong

... the better (or worse in my case) half of the last few days on a bus... 60 some odd hours to be exact. Now I am in Cuzco still I fly out on the 5th. Okay, so last Wedsnesday was very nice. I cooked pasta for most of the day and the result was very ...

Machu Pichu

A travel blog entry by kitty

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The last four days have been some of the most challenging and exciting days of my life. Our group, about 30 of us, spent four days hiking along the Inca trail to Machu Picchu. We spent the first day exploring the sacred valley of the Incas, visited chic ...

Cuzco et Vall�e sacr�e des Incas

A travel blog entry by apsara22

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Nous voici au "nombril du monde", le centre de l�empire des Incas, c�est-�-dire � Cuzco, � trois mille cinq cents m�tres d�altitude, en train de rattraper notre souffle et � emp�cher le coeur de battre trop fort en montant les ruelles et les ...

Macchu Pichu

A travel blog entry by juner

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Just got back from our trip to Macchu Pichu. No matter how many photos you have seen of this wonder, no matter if you have seen tv documentaries - nothing, NOTHING prepares you for the sight of this place. It is absolutely astonishing. I cannot say ...

Cuzco and Machu Pichu

A travel blog entry by abbien

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... feel how magical it must have been. I am just rambling on now so you can just look at the photos! We are back in Cuzco now, gearing up for a big weekend everyone is pretty pumped after finishing the trek. We are heading to Puno on Monday and then to ...

Amanda and Indian food, how great

A travel blog entry by danielaccg

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... . the quick breakdown of our week: 143 hours of amanda, 50+ hours in busses or trains. but we successfully made it to cuzco, then ollantaytambo, then to aguas calientes, then (at 5am) to machu picchu in the sacred valley. and had a great time doing ...

Part I - A new home in Cuzco

A travel blog entry by aporter

... so for the next 30 hours. Within an hour or two of having a lovely Mexican meal in a French restaurant in Peru (strangely typical in Cuzco), my body shut down. It was horrible. I spent that first night in our new home in deep, repeated conversation ...

Ruins, Ruins, Ruins.

A travel blog entry by astralcars

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... chapel of south america. Not much to say, it was a glittsy, goddy church, but pretty fricken cool too! Next stop, Cuzco! So far, a really cool town. The sales people and restaurant workers are pretty pushy, but we've already learned how to ignore them ...

Cuzco and the Inca Trial

A travel blog entry by greesq

... beat such a team so comprehensively - it is now ten in the morning and the party is still going on!!! So things are looking up in Peru after a very bad start, we now have about six days left, we are going to see the Nazca lines and then on to Lima, one ...

Cuzco, Peru

A travel blog entry by wouterf

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... een heel indrukwekkende site, een combinatie van een fort en een tempel, hoog boven en met zicht op de Incahoofdstad Cuzco. De verschillende bouwstenen (sommigen tot 8 meter groot!!!)zijn hier weer zo naadloos in elkaar gepast, volgens een systeem ...

Finally Cuzco!

A travel blog entry by jaimegirl

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... for me after the long day on the bus. Not soon after I arrived, I decided to buy a flight out for the following morning to Cuzco-and this is where I am now! I just arrived a couple of hours ago and it is a cool little town. The flight in was beautiful, ...

The icing on Peru�s cake.

A travel blog entry by teamkhan

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... rocks up big mountains without sustaining hernias is amazing! The day after we headed to a few local Inca sites around Cuzco including one called Sacsayhuayman. Now if you�re wondering how to promounce this, the woman at the tourist ...

Cuzco - feeling a bit oxygen deprived

A travel blog entry by jhavranek

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... we hiked a few kilometres up hill to Sacsayuaman, the fortress above the city. Some pretty impressive stonework and great views of Cuzco. The highlight of an evening show was at first the beautiful host and ended with Melissa dancing on stage in front ...

Altitude 11,000 Feet

A travel blog entry by moinmotion

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After less than 24 hours in Lima, I joined my tour-mates for a very early flight to Cuzco yesterday morning. This is the first test of a prospective Machu Picchu climber�s altitude tolerance, since the city�s elevation is around 11,000 ...

Cusco

A travel blog entry by will.traveller

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... . Yum! "The storied capital of the Inca Empire and gateway to the imperial city of Machu Picchu, Cusco (also spelled Cuzco)is one of the undisputed highlights of South America. Stately and historic, with stone streets and building foundations laid by ...

Cuzco, Macchu Picchu and an iguana

A travel blog entry by bernadine

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... escape. After two bus rides and over 20 hours of journeying I finally arrived at my hostel, the Hostel Frankenstein in Cuzco. I had booked this after noting it's quirky name and suffering from sleep deprivation. When I got there I ...

Sikke noget oev!

A travel blog entry by beritmette

... benplads, saedet kan laenes langt tilbage og der er en fod stoette der kan slaaes ud! (Ku vaere en perfekt skitursbus) Afsted mod Cuzco drog vi mens natten faldt paa. Naeste morgen tidligt kl 5 var vi fremme og min taske var vaek fra under mine foedder. ...

Inca Capital, Macchu Picchu and the Sacred Valley

A travel blog entry by rio2dubai

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... the bus strike, all hostels were full because Cuzco is the Party capital and everyone decided to stay there until it ended! While in Cuzco we visited the sacred Valley where there are lots of Inca ruins. There names (if we can remember, because we've ...

Easin�Down the Road

A travel blog entry by natecropp

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... 't forget. That night we hung out in Pisco and had a nice time getting harassed by street vendors. We tried to get a bus to Cuzco the next day, but due the fact that the Peruvain election was in a few days, bus tickets were hard to come by as ...

cuzco and the mission to machu picchu

A travel blog entry by salkelely

... santa maria...which does eventually turn up. however, when we get to santa maria there are no buses back to cuzco because the next day is peru's national holiday,.........!!! it's about 8pm and we're all tired and dirty and just want to get back to ...

Inca trail day 2 the ofrends to te Apus

A travel blog entry by floribandini

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Leave the village Wayllabamba, close to the canyon Kusichaka, this day rain, was a hard way, i had an impermeable of Mickey Mouse. The road turns complicated , we ascended at 3.500 m.altitude. My steps ...

Machu Picchu, The Inca Trail + Mark Twain's Ghost

A travel blog entry by pscheuring

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... of course, the cash cow of them all, tours to Machu Picchu. It's recommended travelers take a few days to acclimatize to Cuzco's altitude. We do precisely this, checking into the Hostal Conquistador, a kitschy $25-a-night place with a 500-year-old ...

Let loose in the ancient city

A travel blog entry by the_chad

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... chillax....follwed by a night out at a couple of the local clubs to let loose and get in touch with the culture. The next morning, 4 of us were on our way to the local airport to fly out to Puerto Maldonado, otherwise known as the Amazon Basin in Peru. ...

Hanging out in Cuzco

A travel blog entry by arnykim

... simply way too much to write about in detail, I'm just going to summarize in bullet format to catch up. June 6: - Arrived in Cuzco, met my friend Ed's friends Carol and Amy, both from San Jose - Corpus Christi (pre-)festivities in the Plaza de Armas ...

Recover and prepare for the INCA TRAIL

A travel blog entry by the_chad

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Returning from the jungle to have a good nights sleep before heading out to conquer the Inka Trail to eventually arrive at Machu Picchu. Just a quiet night here, besides the fact that 5 of us spent the afternoon on ATV's (quad bikes) roaming around Cusco ...

bien arrive a Cuzco

A travel blog entry by bafreux

... j ai un accord pour ne pas etre taxe avec le surf... mais apparemment... ca marche pas pour les destinations a la montagne comme Cuzco.. a la fin ils ont baste... a force de me plaindre et d avoir fait appeler le responsable.. c etait leur de fermer le ...

Inca Trail

A travel blog entry by weaselsontour

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... we arrived at Kilometer 82 half an hour later for lunch where we were introduced to our guide George (from Peru) and fellow Inca Trail trekker Simon, from Surrey. At around 1pm we started walking and headed for the gateway to ...

inca city

A travel blog entry by ryanmonk

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The Chronicles of Peru

A travel blog entry by adamandgail

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... ours later (not bad!) a bus turns up. we get to cuzco after 24 hours. still better than the 30 hour guestimate. Cuzco is a great place, loads of hippies, loads of cafes, loads of touts selling everything you could never possibly want:) dispite this we ...

Chillin in Cuzco

A travel blog entry by timeofourlives

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... back in Cuzco wandering around the various sights which we hadn�t had chance to see before leaving to go on the Machu Picchu trek. Cuzco is a beautiful little town which is great to get lost in. At night we arranged to meet the rest of the tour group ...

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