Los Portales Hotel Cusco

... nous ramennat a cusco (timin parfait)
le soir ce sera PIZZA, une comme on en na jamais vu au perou, elle est succulente! nous avons recupere pablo au passage un franco argentin qui veut sinstaller qq temps a cusco..
on poursuit la soirre ds un eboite mais pourrie puis ds un bar le km 0, ou lon passe un peu de temps amis le groupe de musiaue a fini de jouer et le sommeil nous rattrappe

... en hoop goed.

We hebben heerlijk getraind en klaar voor het echte werk. Ik kan nu al vertellen dat dat zijn vruchten heeft afgeworpen.

Ik moet nu terug naar de groep, we zullen zo riders meeting krijgen. We zijn begonnen aan de zwaarste sectie van de Vuelta Sudamericano. De komende dagen veel klimmen en bushcamps. Als we weer internet hebben zal ik Machu Picchu en deze zware dagen beschrijven.

Hasta luego!

... pig?. Hmmm, now I was confused. Luckily our friendly waiter who was laughing at the gringos eating mad meat came over and offered to cut the beast into pieces for us, separating the head and body into 6 pieces. We set about tearing the luscious duck like meat from its scrawny litle bones and leather like skin and happilydevoured all we could find, including the spicy peppers filled with its entrails. A little salty, but beautiful. And no, I didnīt eat ...

... gray stratus clouds obscured the higher portions of the massive city and the mist made the visibility poor. It yielded an eerie, almost reluctant introduction to Machu Picchu. We got our history lesson and obligatory tour of the ruins from our guide. As a random "Snapple Fact," Machu Picchu was discovered because a professor from Yale married into money and felt obligated to make himself known as something other than the husband of a wealthy woman ...

... I am I found an alternate route that involved two local buses and a train to get to Aguas Calientes, the city closest to Maccu Picchu. I had to travel by night to make the connections to the train station and everything went smoothly until I got to the train station at 4 AM and was told to walk along the train tracks to get to Aguas Calientes. So I walked along Peruvian train tracks at 4 AM in pitch black by myself oh and did I mention with no sleep either. As you can imagine this ...

LAN Peru announced on the 1st September that, as of that date, their lowest base rate for flight tickets booked in Peru can no longer be bought for use by non-residents. Any non-resident who tries to board a plane with a base rate ticket will now be charged an additional US$ 178.50 by the airline. Any agency who issues a base rate flight ticket for a non-resident will also be fined, as ...

... The hotel was pretty nice overall, especially for Aguas Calientes standards, but they didn't tell us that we have to walk up about 75 steps to get to it on the side of a hill! Other than that it was pretty nice. They call it an "ecolodge" which for them means they recycle everything and try to use what is already naturally there instead of tearing it down and building up. A side note - the nicer hotels in town are very very expensive. Ridiculously overpriced, especially for Peru. I guess ...