Hostal Casa Lecaros Cusco

... figures (Museo Galeria Taller Arte Olave). The owner and his wife – both of a very mature age – were extremely sweet and we chatted a little bit (especially the wife talked very much about Denmark being close to Germany and all the beer there was in Germany). While waiting for the driver, I saw two locals trying to transport a woman in a wheelchair down the extremely steep cobblestone streets. That was not easy at all – especially since they could not use the ...

... San Blas (sort of arty neighbourhood), with great views. It also provided us with our first taste of té de coca, a hot drink made with the leaf of the coca plant... which also happens to be the same plant from which a certain drug of a similar name is made. Now, we certainly didn't get a high, but we did feel slightly funny. Fortunately, it doesn't taste very nice so we won't be having it again anyway.

After a day walking up to and around the ruins at ...

... 2-3 franken).

auch die kleidung unterscheidet sich. hier sieht man viele frauen mit röcken, sandalen und runden hüten, wie man sie von fotos kennt. gewisse findet man auch in ganz traditionellen trachten und einem lama an der leine. dies jedoch nur für die touristen, welche für wenige soles ein foto schiessen dürfen. was die mentalität angeht, glaube ich, dass man das wort stress hier gar nicht kennt. man nimmt sich für alles sehr viel zeit, woran man sich als europäer ...

... you have achieved something.

After arriving at camp and regaining our energy we had some free time before dinner, a group of us decided to use this to explore the village of Socma. Now when I say village please do not picture anything like you would see in the UK, this was more like 5 or 6 houses sprawn across the mountains, no roads and no electricity. As we walked through the village we were met by donkeys, pigs and horses, all roaming freely and without a care for ...

... like snowboard) and Sand Buggy, the enigmatic and mysterious figures and lines dated from the Nazca Culture, Arequipa is considerate the most nicer and colonial city of Peru Vacations, the Colca Canyon is known as the second deepest canyon in the world, the highest navigational Titicaca Lake located on the Altiplano of the Puno ...

... del mundo.

cusco maravilla

Machu Picchu fue eligida con el clásico estilo incaico, con paredes de piedra seca. Sus primeras construcciones fueron Intihuatana, el Templo del sol y el Templo de las tres ventanas, ubicadas en lo que los arqueólogos llaman el Distrito sagrado de Machu Picchu. En septiembre de 2007 ...

... to shouting back at her to please talk normally. But I didn’t. I was tired and I just wanted to sleep. The following day I changed accommodation from Loki to this inn just 50m down from the hostel. The change of scenery was from noisy young backpackers to the sound of young kids in the morning with a strange air freshener smell lurking about in the hotel that I didn’t quite like. I wasn’t sure which accommodation was better ...

... trip. I added about 2 or 3 to the pile. After a short rest, Brenda, Marcel and I continued our walk downhill towards Huayracpunku where the porters and the horses were already waiting for us to have lunch. Finally, the others arrived from half hour up to an hour later.

After we had finished lunch, we continued our hike, but just as the day before, the clouds were growing dark, and then the rain fell down. We all stood under a shelter ...

... Cuzco. Brenda was always passionate about horses and horse riding. So she was especially looking forward to it. We arrived at the stables just outside Cuzco where we were joined by Lior, a short Israeli guy with an American accent, also staying at Hostel Loki, who I thought sounded and looked like a younger Woody Allen. There was also an older guy from Lima who in turn reminded me of a typical cowboy with his cowboy hat. So we had an ...