Cusco Hostels - Reviews and Rates

We grew restless by Saturday, so after another delicious papaya juice with egg-bacon-tomato-on-cheesetoast breakfast we checked on buses to Cusco at the hostel. There was one leaving on the Cial line (a reputable one) in 45min. It was $30 each, a bit steep, but we were ready to go and it would be overnight, saving us money on a place to stay. Be...

I was born in Lima, Peru, and lived there till I was about 6 months old when we left to Aruba and thereafter to Puerto Rico. I went back annually for several years to visit family and friends, but since about 20 years ago I have only been back a handful of times, and those had been short business trips. Till this day I can't say that I really kn...

I´m in Cusco now and living with a host family. The city is interesting, clearly very poor by U.S. standards, but also changing/growing rapidly. The altitude (over 11,000 ft.) is a huge challenge and has already given me some headaches. The trek in the Andes next week is going to be hard! Tomorrow, I start language classes at the local school an...

Hello everyone, once again sorry for the shortage of entries to my blog the past couple of weeks, I have literally been on the road since my last entry and covering quite a bit of ground to where I am at the moment. We left Puerto Montt to Santiago after a long wait around the bus station, by the time it came to get on the bus we were all ready ...

Sorry, the internet at the Cotrina's was down last night. That's a real shame, given that a lot happened yesterday. I got up at 4:45, and I left the hotel at 5:30. We got onto a bus to go up to Machu Picchu. We were lucky to be on that bus because we just barely made it on. After about 25 minutes, we got to Machu Picchu. It was pretty awesome. ...

altitude!!!!!! whoo. if i thought i was out of shape before, this makes it all that much worse! not really, i was thinking that we were going to do the inca trail and so have been doing squats as often as possible, even on the boat. so the stairs are easier than i remember. i am drinking more water too which helps. the first day we were positive...

We reached the old Inka capital early on a rainy morning, completely exhausted from travel for 17 hours on a luxury bus. For some reason I always sleep best on the cheap horrible buses and suffer on the comfortable once. But after a day of mostly sleeping and watching CSI on TV we set out to explore Cusco. Again it was raining, but it made the c...

What a day yesterday!! I had a great class with my teacher, and we wandered together for a bit afterwards just talking about stuff. Then it was off to the Football!! I watched the Cuzco team take on a Lima team - the atmosphere was great!! There were so many people dressed in red (Cuzco´s colour) and with drums and hooters and firecrackers. Funn...

El boleto turistico is a magical, slightly expensive ticket that gets you into 16 points of interest in and around Cuzco. Half are museums and half are archaeological sites (Inca ruins). It just so happens that four of those sites are one after the other on the same road up to 8 km out of Cuzco. Now that's walkable. So we walked. The guidebook r...

According to the central Inca creation myth, the Sun sent his son, Manco Capac, and the Moon sent her daughter, Mama Ocllo, to spread culture and enlightenment throughout the dark, barbaric lands. They emerged from the waters of Lake Titicaca and began their journey in search of the place where they would found their kingdom. When they reached t...