Andean South Inn Cusco

... Cathedral, the Temple of Qoricancha, and the Inca ruins of Sacsayhuaman, Qenqo, Puca Pucara, and Tambomachay. This tour will let you learn about the Inca culture as well as some aspects of the conquest of the Inca&#8217;s Empire and the colony. The tour will finish around 18:00hrs. back to your hotel. Night in Cusco.<br><br> Day 7: Cusco &#8211; Sacred Valley of the Incas (B)<br><br> Early in the morning after your breakfast, we&#8217;ll pick ...

... from numerous travelers at the Backpackers Family House in Lima. But still, there&#8217;s something genuinely disturbing about waking up at 3 o&#8217;clock in the morning &#8211; and realizing that there&#8217;s simply not enough oxygen in the air to take a full breath. The local name for altitude sickness is &#8220;soroche,&#8221; and I would compare it to the way I felt when I had asthma as a kid. Your heart beats quite a bit faster than normal, you struggle to take anything ...

... then meet for dinner in 15 minutes. Dee and I selected our tent that was perched on a terrace high on the mountain side, this camp was to be our last taste of luxury for a few days, it had a dining room and 2 flushing toilets, no big deal you're thinking but believe me these things would soon be a long distant memory.<br><br>Finally after a meal that I cannot remember due to tiredness it was off to be at 8:30pm, my first night in a tent in Peru, the first night of my real adventure.<br>

Well, after being greeted with open arms by Helen on my arrival (she was snoozing on the bed) &amp; getting over the contrast in both of our accomodations from our previous trips, we settled in for a week at school. <br><br>We´ve learnt a few words.. una botella de vino blanco por favor &amp; dos cappacino reals being the most important ones, &amp; hopefully a few more that will come back to us on the way. Our week has now ...

Hola!!!<br><br>As we mentioned barely got any sleep last night, and we have to catch a plane from Arequipa to Cusco via Juliaca, the flight only took an hour in total but it seemed much shorter mainly due to the great entertainment provided by a Japanese tour guide!!! Oi, you in my seat, move now!!!! ha!!!<br><br>After arriving in Cusco we have a quick tour of the main ...

... not include:<br> <ul><br> <li><br> Breakfast the first morning (you can order an early breakfast at your hotel)</li><br> <li><br> Lunch and Dinner the last day (on your own).</li><br> <li><br> Hot springs pools visit (on your own).</li><br> <li><br> Bus Ticket from Machu Picchu Inca city to Aguas Calientes village.</li><br> <li><br> Tips for the crew (guides, cooks ...

... to ask them. I wrote down everyone&#8217;s names. The group is younger than we expected; we figure we have every decade covered from the late 20&#8217;s through age 70. Harvey &amp; I reaffirm to each other that we will walk at our own pace. I am so excited! Before going to sleep, we pack and re-pack the bags for the trek. Ready to go!<br><br>http://www.margieswebgallery .com/galleries/peru/Cuscomainsquare/

... going on. We were locked out of our room by security around midnight, and so there was no choice but to keep going till 7am when the party finished. The Point operate a strict no bringing your own drinks policy; Andy and Tom managed to keep their rum hidden, but I sneaked off into our room to drink some foolishly-purchased white wine and got busted by security after drinking only one glass - 15 soles down the drain! Despite this hiccup overall I got atrociously drunk beyond ...

... issued to us (at no extra fee), attached to the ones we had this morning. We will all be taking a new flight tomorrow morning at 5:00am. This meant that we had to be at the airport by 3:00am. Had we taken an earlier flight this morning instead of the 9:30am one, we would have been able to land. Apparently, the flights that left before us, did land. <br><br>Lucky for us, we had Justin's place to go back to whereas ...

The Incas referred to the valley along the Urubamba River as the Sacred Valley because it was so fertile. There are several ancient Inca towns along this way with archaeological ruins. I decided to do a day trip to this part outside of Cuzco and was picked up from the central Plaza where I was relieved to finally join the others in the tour group after being harassed by a number of sellers wanting me to buy their postcards of Machu Picchu. We first visited a ...