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Hostal San Blas Cusco

Cuesta de San Blas 526 Cusco, Peru

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Some city tour!

A travel blog entry by jam10

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Our final day in Cuzco we were booked on to do our 'free' City Tour that came with our Machu Picchu trip. We were to be picked up at 1:30pm but bumping into Cecilia (the lady who had organised it all) we discovered that now we needed to go to the Catedral to meet the tour guide there. So at 2pm we did just that and were met with a tour guide …

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Cruising In Cusco And Trekking To Machu Picchu

A travel blog entry by janakaemma

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... us in and had already set up the tents. That night we were woken to a strange, loud chewing noise. Emma banged the side of the tent to scare what ever it was away which woke Janaka up who went crazey banging the whole tent as he thought it was an animal coming in. It turned out to be a harmless donkey having a mid night feast! There were many donkeys along the trek and we heard them talk for the first time making a loud eeeiiiii-ooooooh noise. We also saw some ...

Red Roofs and the Giant Stones of "Sexy Woman"

A travel blog entry by toddcullen

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... takes an unbelievable amount of the dollars we spend on visiting these tourist sites to line their own pockets. It is really interesting to see how the Peruvian government makes decisions about these important sites! Money, money, money.

The most interesting thing Percy told us about while viewing these ruins is a "sister" city to Machu Picchu that they have uncovered fairly recently called Choquequirao. Some people think this is the true "lost city of the ...

The Heart of the Incas

A travel blog entry by tyliggity

... had no idea where I would stay in Cusco, Shaine suggested the hostel he chose, called "Pariwana". After we landed, we took a cab over to Pariwana and settled down for a bit. The low oxygen levels of the 11,152 foot elevation really takes its toll right off the plane. So, I dropped my things and passed out in the room for most of the afternoon.
I awoke in the late afternoon when Shaine returned from some ...

Kickin' back in Cusco

A travel blog entry by drcajunstyle

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... along each stretch. We actually pulled over at one point as there were a number of people stood on the side of the road. We were told a local guy had driven off the side of the road only a couple days before.

We arrived in Santa Teresa squashed but safe, grabbed a bite to eat at a local restaurant (around $3 for soup, followed by steak stir fry and rice, with coke), before getting in a taxi with only 4 others this time to head for ...