Hill Valley Hotel

... us in the hotel! hotel guys check out our luggage as we are late and send us to a hotel which over looks the valley.. hotel valley view. found that bhutan accepts no cards no visa no masetro and we have no cash cept to pay for hotel valleyview + 250 ...

... didn’t really intend to explore much and headed straight for the restaurant where I was to have dinner. The Nile Valley Hotel has a rooftop restaurant, overlooking the Nile. Although the meal was fairly unspectacular, the views were special. As the ...

... , we drove onto our first archaeological site of the day in Pisac. Known as Inca Písac, the site lies atop a hill at the entrance to the valley. It is thought it defended the entrance to enemies and the Spanish. The view is pretty amazing as the ruins ...

... at 8am and head north past the picturesque Barossa Valley ( which we had explored on Sunday) and Clare Valley before passing through Burra and Yunta then onto Broken Hill . We are lucky to have Shaun as a travelling partner who has local knowledge of this ...

... We all agree the fleet footed donkeys were one of the highlights of the trip. We had a great time racing each other up the hill. At the valley of the kings, we were met by our local guide, an archaeologist named mahumed. He took us to three of the ...

... a good time to say that despite the Lonely Planet's assurance that "Luxor is flat," I can definitely say that the Valley of the Kings sits on top of a very big hill. Riding a 1-gear 1950s-era bike on black pavement- in the heat, for 10 miles- is a, ...

... lovely and gooey in the world of the valley..... If yo do get a chance to go the beautiful (but most expensive) Hunter Valley please take a trip to Mistletoes, the people are lovely, the vinyard is beautiful (especially at sunset) and you can admire the ...

... enough place.  It was nice and sunny, but not too hot.  As Kelly told us some background information on the Death Valley, all my GCSE History came flooding back from when we studied the West.  The Doner Party was the main one I remembered, ...

... the same name. Further along the valley is the gateway village of Yucay and then the busy transit hub of Urubamba. Another 20km - the valley sides getting steeper and the valley floor narrower as you head deeper into the valley, you come to the village of ...

... back to Pisac town, we once again boarded a bus and made our way back to Cusco. Taking public transportation in the Sacred Valley is always a cross between getting from one place to another, and possibly moving on to the afterlife, but once again we made ...

... big & impressive, on top of a hill that looks over Cusco. Next we went to the ruins at Pisac in the Sacred Valley, high on a mountain side, followed by lunch in the town. Unfortunately we saw our first very heavy rain just as we were about to ...

... so much better don’t you think? Give me strength! Howard Carter’s old house sits on top of a hill overlooking the entrance to the Valley and it would have been nice to have visited that. It is being converted into a museum with audio visual ...

... ideal site to have used for defense purposes. Our second stop was Tambomachay which is another Inca site set in a pretty little valley.  Nobody really knows what the site was used for.  Legend surrounds the water at the site though!   ...

... bed was particularly warm and comfortable. We shared breakfast with a Canadian family who were bicycling around the Loire Valley. The teenage daughter suffered from a very unpleasant condition which barred her from eating anything containing wheat and ...

... ; He is buried at the monument, behind the unknown soldier. After spending the night in at our Luxor hotel, we drove across the Nile toward the Valley of the Kings.  Along the way we could see the sharp contrast between the green ribbon ...

... area, so it would be a great lay-over for 4-5 days and a centre from which to explore all the other sights of the Sacred Valley that I do not get to see – this time around. My next entry will continue the suspense about my excess luggage – not ...

... I have wanted to see for 15 years - Joshua trees!  Ever since the U2 album (called Joshua Tree) was photographed in Death Valley, I have wanted to see the Joshua trees in person.  They were amazing and we spent quite a while studying them, and ...

... very much.  Eric and I bought a bottle of Tempranillo. Next we stopped at The Peterson House Winery and Hunter Valley Chocolate Company.  Yep, that’s right, wine and chocolate in the same place.  The Peterson House specializes in ...

... , I booked my boat trip and enjoyed a peaceful ride along the river to see the other old and beautiful castles in the valley including Castlenaud which is now a museum of medieval weapons and warfare. The sun was hot and shining off the crystal clear ...

... we grabbed them and hopped in the van that would take us to our ferry for the short ride across to the West Bank - home of the Valley of the Kings & Queens and hot air balloons!  A 5 min ferry trip we jumped into a car and went on the ...

A: We had to be up early to make the most of our scootor excursion to the Sacred Valley. However the previous evening Vanisha and I went out and had dinner and some drinks at a few bars. I walked V home and went for a quick “nightcap” across ...