Sacred Valley Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Dear Blog,

After an exciting morning and incredible afternoon, we had the entire rest of the day at our leisure.

First of all, we checked into our hotel, the Machu Picchu Pueblo Inkatera. It was everything I read about, even more impressive in person. Several little lodges situated on acres of land were what made the place so bea...

Hooray, our much anticipated 4-day hike along the 42km Inca Trail starts today… On Friday the 13th… Oh well, we can't wait!

We woke up to rain… not a good start, but we took a small bus from our hotel to Km 82, the start of the trail, where we have to show our passports and get our Inca Trail ticket. We got prepared and ...

Starting in Cusco, the inka jungle trail led in 4 days to Santa Maria (descending partially by bike), Santa Teresa (including a cable car adventure and visit of gorgeous hot springs), Agua Calientes (where climbin the "happy mountain" was the ultimate challenge"), and culminating in the ascendancy of Machu Pichu - one of the greatest ruins I hav...

Set out over an hour late in heavy rain this morning - I slipped in the mud almost immediately. Adam W found a sheep's skull and tried to remove its teeth to make a necklace, bemusing me, but had to leave it in the end as the teeeth refused to come out. He told me that he already had a whale's jaw necklace and to my shame, I accepted this for se...

We arrived by train to Aguas Calientes, found a hostel and then walked down river to Mandor Falls. It was nice to get out and hike again and we ended up at a pretty sweet water falls. On the way to the falls we walked down the railroad tracks along the river, past the sign for MP, orchids and other wild flowers then we got to a gate for the Mand...

The morning once again started off with breakfast at Claudia's house. Same spread as yesterday, but this time I decided to enjoy the eggs. Claudia said her specialty was sunny side up eggs, which happens to be my favorite as well, so I couldn't resist. Her special ingredient was to sprinkle rosemary (not to be confused with pine needles) on top....

Like clockwork, the porters woke us exactly when Casiano told us they would -- 3:40 am. I could already hear trekkers from other groups stirring and packing up their things elsewhere in the campsite. No wonder Casiano was so serious about the early hour! I had things pretty organized from the night before, so I just quicky packed up, brushed my ...

Hallo zusammen, nachdem wir also letztes Wochenende in Ollanteytambo unseren Zug genommen haben, sind wir abends gegen 10 in Aguas Calientes angekommen. Ein kleines Staedchen in dem nicht viel zu sehen ist. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aguas_Cal ientes%2C_Peru) Es fuehrt noch nicht einmal eine Strasse zu diesem Ort, weil Peru Rail (Ist die glei...

Up and out again this morning very early. Today we travel to Aguas Calientes. The city at the base of Machu Picchu. Our trip will be half way by bus and half by train. We drive through more amazing scenery. This country is a beautiful patchwork of farm fields and terraces, sparsely dotted with adobe houses with red tile roofs. The sky today is a...

We got up and were walking by 7:30am, ok, so maybe it`s not really that early. We decended down to Old Santa Teresa, moved for the same reasons as Old Santa Maria I guess. There are a couple of different vallies that you can walk up here and I was glad in the end to have a little help in order to take the right one. We started walking through th...