Trujillo, Peru – The first thing I noticed about Trujillo was the traffic. Both pedestrian and vehicle, Trujillo has to have the most swirling maelstrom of movement that I’ve encountered, pretty much anywhere. Being a fairly poor community, it’s not surprising that it’s rare for individuals to own cars, but I expected far more in… Read More Impressions of Trujillo
Trujillo, Peru – Having left behind Cuzco and the home of the Incas, we found ourselves an hour or so later in Lima with several hours to wait until the one daily flight to Trujillo, Henry’s hometown. We checked our luggage into a locker and grabbed a cab to the beach, where we sat at… Read More City of Eternal Spring
Cuzco, Peru – Our last full day in Cuzco dawned bright and early… well, I guess dawn probably came at roughly the normal time, but we were up early, and eagerly awaiting Yony’s arrival. After a little coffee and toast, the three of us trooped out to the street where she hailed the first cab… Read More Capital City Roundup
Cuzco, Peru – We got back into town late from Machu Picchu, after all, it’s a nearly five hour trip back. We did cut it a little short, it turns out that one can avoid the hour of zig-zagging up (or down) the hill by taking a bus from the town at the top, Potoy,… Read More Post Machu Picchu…
Machu Picchu, Peru – It’s not surprising that Machu Picchu is stunning, awesome, amazing, and any other sort of descriptor of that sort you might come up with. We did a pretty straightforward tour. That meant not being there at seven in the morning to climb to the top of Wayna Picchu, the sacred mountain… Read More Machu Picchu
Cuzco, Peru – I realized as I started to write this post that I have no idea what to say about the Sacred Valley of the Incas. The same is going to be true for the post on Machu Picchu. The latter, is obviously somewhere that we’ve all heard of. The former, for the most… Read More The Sacred Valley
Cuzco, Peru – With a long morning of touring under our belts, as well as a mountain of food, we took a short siesta and then decided to continue using up our admissions on the tourist boleto… we headed a few blocks from the main plaza to the Municipalidad, or town hall, which also houses… Read More A Little Art, a Little Wandering
Cuzco, Peru – One may as well start close to the center and work one’s way out… so we booked our first tour for the former capital of the Incan Empire with a “city tour”. It’s a bit of a misnomer, as only one site that we visited was actually in the city, and our… Read More Capital City