Blogs from Cusco, Cusco, Cusco, Peru, South America - page 62

Howdy, Let op, dit keer houden we het echt kort (tuf door de vingers). Na terugkomst uit de jungle in Bolivia, hebben we weer hetzelfde propellorvliegtuigje naar La Paz genomen, waar we vanuit een taxi weer in een bus gesprongen zijn. Zo begon ons tripje naar Lago Titicaca, een heel mooi hoog meer tussen Bolivia en Ecuador. In Copacabana en Puno hebben we tussenstops gemaakt, waar we vooral op het terras gehangen hebben. In Puno hebben we nog een boottocht gemaakt naar een volkje dat op drijvende rieteilanden woont. Erg mooi en grappig, helaas wel supertoeristisch. Een hoogtepunt was wel een bruiloft op een van deze eilandjes! Een lekker live jengelmuziekje van de lokale meisjes en een heeele hoop ladderzatte mensen, onvervalst tanken is sowieso iets wat Andinos graag doen.. De volgende dag gauw door naar ... read more

Yes we´ve made it in one piece!! Unfortunately with no bags thanks to AA Airlines. :-( Everything else has gone to plan and Cusco is truely amazing. Not much else to say other than we´re wearing the same clothes we had on yesterday, and the day before!! Lau´s washed her undies.....I´m going for the reversal method to start with at least. ;-) Today´s a national holiday so it doesn´t look like we´ll get them back until tomorrow.....fingers crossed. Anyway, wish us luck.... read more

I arrived in Cusco last Wednesday, and I immediately went and tries to sort out a 4 day trek to Choquequirao, which are the other set of Inca ruins that they are still discovering. Everything looked to be on track, we had managed to cobble together 4 people for the trek - Great. Then the following evening - just 10 hrs before leaving I was told that one of the group had altitude sickness, and so all 3 of them were pulling out of the trek! - No trek!!! Having already booked my onward flight to Argentina I was not happy, as I would quite happily have stayed an extra couple of days to do this trek. Instead I have been staying around Cusco. At the weekend I went and did some white water rafting ( ... read more

We have now been in Cusco since Wednesday afternoon. What a change in temperature! We went from soo hot and humid to very very very cold. We immediately bought mittens and hats and plan to buy more! haha.... Cusco though is a very beautiful mountain city. We are staying at a hostel which has amazing views of the city and surrounding mountains - very nice scenery for a morning cup of Coca Tea. The city is full of tourists but the locals are very helpful. We have met many travellers from various parts of the world and shared experiences and stories about traveling to the next destination. So far our days have been full of trying to organize our itinerary from here. Transportation is difficult to coordinate in Peru and it is proving challenging to chart ... read more

After a somewhat torturous 18 hour bus ride from La Paz, we arrived in Cusco, Peru after midnight, tired and grumpy. We were even grumpier when the taxi driver ripped us off, charging 20 soles instead of the 5 soles it should have cost, but your options are limited after midnight when you are tired in a strange City. The bus ride was meant to be a direct bus, but ended up being three buses from different companies that regressed in quality each time. Obviously the first company just bought the cheapest crappiest tickets it could for the connecting buses it wasn't bothering to run. I do not know what the Bolivian concept of direct is, but it does not align with my own understanding. None of the buses had toilets, and when I asked the ... read more