Our trip to Peru in September, 2018 started with a quick overnight in Lima and then on to Cusco, by small airplane, where we got into a taxi for a 4 hour drive, down 2,000 feet in elevation, to Ollantaytambo (at 9,160 ft), visiting ruins and sights along the way. There we stayed for 3 nights adjusting to the altitude before boarding a train to Machu Picchu below at 8,000 ft. Then to Cusco for a few days before flying back to Lima for a couple of days touring. Start from the beginning at the bottom Travelogue here.
Hello Everyone, We spent our last few days in Peru’s capital city, Lima. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this city of 8.5 million people, but it turned out to be a delightful place. It is a fairly young city, as capital cities go, founded by the Spaniard, Francisco Pizzaro, in 1535, in a […]
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Hello Everyone, Machu Picchu was built high in the mountains, but at a lower elevation (8,000 ft) than the other cities we visited. To get there we took a train to a small town, Aguas Calientes, where we boarded a bus that zig-zagged back and forth up a mountain side 1500 feet above us. They
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Hello Everyone, Ollantaytambo is a delightful small city in the Andean mountains of Peru. It was our favorite of all the places we visited here. Though it is touristed a bit, it also has a large indigenous population of farmers and local workers that live here. It’s a good place to actually mix with the
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Hello Everyone, As I mentioned earlier, our adventure to Peru began via train to Vancouver, Canada, where we spent the afternoon visiting a casino, an outlet mall and cool stuff at the airport, for Carol’s story about “how to have fun in Vancouver for the day while saving big bucks on your international airline ticket.”
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Hello Everyone, Carol and I are heading off on another travel journey tomorrow morning (Monday, September 17th, 2018). This time we’re going South, for 2 weeks, all the way to Peru. It’ll be our first trip to South America since 1999. The main attraction will be the historic Inca ruins at Machu Picchu. We’re traveling
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