Prisma Hotel Cusco

So, we made it! What you are about to read is the adventure of two (not-so-fit) people who went, unprepared, on the hardest physical challenge of their lives, who moaned, froze, laughed, cried (well, Jillian did) and ached the whole way along the Inca Trail, but who both said how amazingly worth it it was! The Road to Machu Picchu... The Inca trail, 8 days Lima to Cusco Day 1: Lima The first day was in Lima, a meeting with a "GAP Adventures" representative (the company we booked the tour with...

DLJ: We arrived at the airport in Lima promptly at 3:30 am Friday, right on time for our 5:30 am departure, only to discover that the entire staff at TACA airlines had yet to get out of bed. About an hour later, some of their personnel finally arrived and proceded to spend the next 30 minutes organizing a rope maze for the customers (who were lined up neatly behind the counter) to walk through. When we finally had the opportunity to speak with the agent, we were informed that our flight was i...

JLS: Day 2 in Cusco. Having the morning free from tour duties, we had a pleasant breakfast at the hotel, updated our blog (wuhoo) and hunted for a cool brick oven style pizza place where I ate with my Dad last time I was in Cusco 5 years ago. No luck. So Top Chicken it was. Having introduced Dave to Peruvian style rotisserie chicken in Baltimore, we could not pass the real thing up. DLJ: What Joyce is forgetting to mention is that at the completion of our meal, I dazzled her with my new maste...

JLS: We began our descent into Machu Picchu on the Inca train (yes, Machu Picchu is located lower than Cusco). Here is Dave failing at an attempt to be all existentialist and stuff. DLJ: We sat down and had our hopes of a quiet train ride dashed by a very vocal couple who proceeded to sit across from us and asked us if we spoke English. Yes, thatīs right...Americans. Only it was even worse. They were from California! Here I had it all planned out how I was going to somehow pull the wool over ...

11.01 Naa har vi forlatt Argentina, baade buenos aires og rosario.. :/ I gaar natt ankom vi Lima, vi ble hentet paa flyplassen og kjort til et fancy hotell, ihvertfall iforhold til tidligere overnattinger vi har hatt i latinamerika :) I dag skal vi bli litt kjent med byen, og ha et informasjonsmote for inka-trail senere i kveld! Blir spennende aa se hvem vi skal gaa sammen med, haaper det ikke kun blir gamle bestemodre.. :) Tatoveringen kommer seg.. den blir friskere for hver dag! Kan nesten ...

Greetings from Cuzco! The night before flying to Cuzco, Dave and I met some of our travel companions for the Inca trail hike. After a long night out exploring Lima, the 6AM wakeup call for breakfast felt quite early. Soon enough we were on the move again, however, and by 8 had boarded our flight to Cuzco. Though only an hour in length, the flight provided spectacular views as we went over the Andes mountains. We arrived at our hotel in Cuzco by 10 and after orientation set out to find food. O...

I'm back from the hike to Machu Piccu and I survived it! All I can say is holy **** is it brutal... challenging is more the right word as I don't think I was physically conditioned and mentally prepared for what was to come before this all started. What got me through was the GAP Adventure group we had was totally totally awesome! Great bunch of people and we had a great time :) Thanks guys! We were pretty supportive of one another on and off the trail and got along pretty good. We had Canadi...

Today we didn't know what time we should wake up to meet everyone for breakfast and even thought Steve did text Helen to wake up ... her phone died during the night so we never did wake up until 30 minutes later when everyone left. We wanted to all meet for one last breakfast so to say as some people had to leave to catch a plane while others checked out to another place to stay. We stayed for another night as we continued our tour via the Amazon. But today, we spend the day at Cusco pretty m...

Ojojoj.... Vi er i Cuzco! Kom tilbake fra Inka trail igaar! HURRA! Jeg overlevde! Jeg var ikke helt sikker paa hva jentene hadde bestilt, men de fire av fem stjernene som skulle vise hvor stor den fysiske utfordringen var, stemte rimelig godt! Vi har vel egentlig bare gaatt ca 40 km, men det skal sies at det aller meste av det gikk rett oppover, paa hoeye steintrappetrinn som inkaene laget for mange, mange aar siden. den ene dagen gikk vi nesten 1 1/2 km rett oppover! Resten av tida gikk det,...

Our bus was scheduled to leave the hotel at 7am - I woke up at 710 in a panic. As I was frantically throwing stuff in bags, I had Ian run down to tell them weīd be there in 5 mins. Ian came back into the room to tell me that the bus was gone - we had to take a cab to the airport....our flight left at 940 and we had to be there two hours in advance!!! And then, I really woke up with my heart pounding only to see that it was still dark out - I grabbed Ianīs arm (heīs wearing the only watch betw...