Monarca Hostal Cusco
Pumapaccha 290, San Blas Cusco, Peru
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Peru - the beginning
After a long day of travel (fly from Toronto to Lima, stay 5 hours in the Lima airport, then an hour flight to Cusco at 5:40am), we finally arrived in Cusco, Peru. Found a decent hotel and promptly fell asleep for a few hours. Even though we are at some altitude (almost 4000m) we were feeling pretty good. Today we got up early and took a local bus …
Lots of Ruins
I have officially changed the title of this trip. It is now `Reach for the top, and get buns of steel doing itī. This morning we got up and took a cab about 11km out of the city to Tampumachay. Itīs an Inca ruin just outside of the city. We then started to walk back to Cusco visiting Pucapucara, Qenco and Sacsayhuaman (all Inca ruins)along the way …
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Amazing Race - Bruce style
... The hour’s flight was fine and on arrival at Cusco airport I saw the information booth of the hotel chain where I am staying at so I simply asked the lady what would be the taxi fare to the hotel to get some form of idea of what to pay. Collected my bags and she took out me to a driver in a plain car ...
Will we ever be healthy!
... fantastic, well worth a look. On then to Cusco and a couple of days to sort out the 'big trip' to Machu Picchu.
The first hostel we booked was the Samay Wasi1, where we would spend a couple of days getting Hannah back upto strength and getting the best deal for our trip. A nice small place high on the side of San Blas hill overlooking Cusco, with wonderful views. We went out for a meal that night just round the corner from the hostel, to a small restaurant ...
Machu Picchu, the Sacred Valley & Lake Titicaca
... and gloves as well as very brightly coloured paintings.
The other thing that staggered me was the way certain tourists act. Despite requests from guides not to pay people, mainly cute children dressed in traditional attire for photos, many ignornant and out and out greedy tourists still paid for their 'must have’ photo. This is so bad for the children’s development because as long as they keep on getting paid for photos, the more the parents will ...



