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
Cuzco, Peru – Puno has been intriguing, interesting, and inspiring. It’s also been hard to breathe and cold. We’re ready to leave, and getting up with the sun isn’t a problem on our day of departure. I’m not sure we really slept much at all, especially given that that packed van is coming back for… Read More Headed to the Sacred Mountains…
Puno, Peru – Some thoughts looking back at our last day in Puno – for a small, rural city, it’s very clean. There’s definitely a bit of dirt and grime around, but there’s simply no litter – and I noted that people are very careful about depositing their garbage in trash receptacles around the city… Read More Final Notes in Puno…
Puno, Peru – One of the things one learns quickly when traveling is that guidebooks are invariably, simply, wrong. There was a recent article to this effect that basically interviewed a bunch of writers for various travel guides who said that they get paid so little, that it isn’t worth their time to actually check… Read More More Floating Adventure
Puno, Peru – Our first day in Puno dawned bright and early… given how early we’d hit the sack, it was about 6:30 a.m. when we both gave up on trying to sleep. Plus we were both feeling the effects of the altitude, so we headed downstairs to the breakfast room and knocked back a… Read More Floating Islands