El Balcon Cusco
Tambo de Monterro 222 Cusco, -, Peru
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Flight to Cusco
Started the morning with our All American Breakfast. We spend our time watching the Americans (North) - one in particular spent breakfast standing up whilst her friend drank coffee from a cereal bowl. At first we gave her the benefit of doubt but she went back for more....... Our lovely taxi driver comes to collect us and back we go to the airport …
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Machu Picchu - Entry two
... and out. Only 200 can enter at 7 am and again another 200 at 11 am. This morning only 178 entered at 7 am. Yes, it must be low season.
Because the whole of MP was covered in this mist and you couldn’t see more than 50 metres, I decided to climb first to the top of the small Huchuy Picchu ...
Sacred valley of the Inca
... town just to sell their hand crafts. We also spent some time in the craftmarket of the town of Pisac before heading down the valley to Urubamba where we are staying at a nice lodge. At dinner we were serendaded by a family of musicians playing traditional music on the pan pipes.
This morning we were up at 6:30 to head out to Ollantaytambo. The Inca retreated to this place when the Spanish took Cusco and is one of the only places where the ...
Hiking the Andes on a potato
... many levels that is.
The roosters wake us up before the early bird gets the worm, and breakfast is served. We repeat the potato routine and head down to la Mamacita whom lives just down the road with some food. This remarkable lady just turned 100 years old and lives by herself in the house where she was born. Putucu chats with her in Quetchua. The smile on her face when she realizes that we came with some food for her is priceless.
With a big pep in our step, ...
Peruvian Perils
... a 3 hour tour at the site, our guide Coca Man, a native Quechuan, filled us in with ancient stories and traditions of the people who made this spectacular place their home. We visited temples of sun and moon, temples dedicate to the Condor, other sacred sites and schooled ourselves in the ways of Incan life. It is a most fascinating, beautiful and marvelous place, the misty clouds added to Machu Pichus awe inspiring atmosphere and following the tour we ...



