Samay Hotel Cusco

... D80. He also told me about the company and how they each 25th of December all go to local Andean villages – with their tourists – to spend the day and offer gifts to the local poor children. I liked that very much. After dinner we went for a single beer at another bar, before I called it a night. I do not think he minded is much as he had a severe cold. My last night in Cusco I slept very well, and when I woke up the sun was shining. Typically that it should be on my ...

... be interesting alright.

I am a wee bit nervous with the heights but will have to soldier on as too involved now.....

Hopefully all will be well and sure it will but this will be the last blog for a few days until we are back in Cusco on Wednesday 25th. Have another 2 nights in Cusco once we get back and then the plan is to move down to Puno, Lake Titicaca and the Salt Flats on the Peruvian/Bolivian border!

Hasta luego for now.

... heading up we came across a group of men and boys making adobe (mud) bricks for the building of a new house, it was fascinating to watch, they literally took the earth, mixed it with water, straw and some form of cactus and moulded it into large bricks, it looked like large versions of mud pies that you would make as a child, however these guys were using them to make their homes.

Another hour of walking what felt like directly up at times went by and we arrived at a ...

... Inca Trail trek combining the perfect knowledge of the ancestral, colonial and modern cultures visiting the 3 different natural regions of Peru Vacations.
15 days of traveling in Peru Vacations is good enough to learn about the culture, costumes, national parks, museums, Andean mountains, hot springs, good food and the best ...

... Urubamba de Perú, a 80 Km. (50 millas) al noroeste de Cusco. También conocida como “La ciudad perdida de los Incas”, Machu Picchu es probablemente el símbolo más conocido del imperio inca. Fue construida en el año 1450, pero la abandonaron cien años más tarde, durante la conquista española al imperio inca. Olvidada durante ...

When I arrived back at Cuzco, I wasn't sure in which direction my trip was going to take next – whether to head straight down to Bolivia or to retrace my steps and head up to Ecuador. All I knew then was that I was going to spend the next few days in Cuzco resting, taking it easy, research my guidebook and then make a decision. I wasn’t going to do any hiking, biking, riding or anything that involved some form of exercise at least for a ...

... but in sweet form. The up parts were still tiring, but I kept on hiking without slowing down. We hiked for 4 hours uphill to get to the highest point of the trail (4650m) located halfway between 2 huge mountains – Salkantay and Tucarhuay. From the pass, the views of the 2 snow-capped mountains were incredible.

I arrived at the highest point of the trek after Brenda and Marcel. I was so happy to reach 4650m point as not only were ...