Blogs from Cusco, Cusco, Peru, South America - page 186

A strike in Cusco meant that Cynthias car was pelted with stones as she left the airport at Cusco on her journey to the hotel. All taxis were banned and no one was able to leave or enter Cusco. Including us who had tracked down a loco taxi driver who took up the challenge of taking us to Tipon. It was not to be. Every road out of Cusco was blocked with either boulders, people or rubbish. The advantage was that it allowed us to get a ticket to Macchu Picchu on one of the busiest weeks and see Macchu Picchu as it should be seen, with very few tourists!...Normally there are approximately 1000 visitors a day and the west side of the mountain is giving away at a rate of 1cm a month!!! The Peruvian ... read more

Well after 6 days and 4 buss journeys of 10 hours+ across the center of the Andes, ahh poor Sarah and Jason I hear you all cry... We have finally landed in Cusco to check out the center of the old Inca Empire. The town is one of the more beautiful places we have stayed, but also one where you get hassled the most. The city is considered to be the longest inhabited locations in all of South America. The Spaniards built directly on top of the old Inca city, and this has made for the most interesting colonial architecture centers yet. Lots of narrow cobbled streets and buildings built on top of Inca walls. Also this is one of the main tourist spots in all of Peru and therefore some great pubs and food places. ... read more

We started our trek off really early in the morning on Monday the 5th. We had a very interesting buss ride to a small town called Cruzpata. The buss went off the paved road and put her into low drive to chug it’s way up a switchbacky hill/mountain. In Cruzpata we collected our backpacks and climbed into the back of a truck that took us farther up the hill. There we had a small breakfast before we started the trek. Plans had changed over night for our trek and our group was now nine people, the three originals, me, Evi and Emmit, along with three ladies from Australia, two French Canadians, and a guy from England. Plans seemed to change a lot along the way. The first day we walked about 20 or 25 kilometers in ... read more

ok, as usual i am a bit behind on the olod travel blogs so i will keep this one short. ran into paddy and suzie again, this was the 5th time and hopefully not the last. not sure where they are now, where are you guys??? enough said, hope you enjoy the photos. i will be back in the states on the 18th of october and back in waukegan around the 25th of oct. I should be in Minnesota in early Nov and back to work after that!!!!!... read more

Cauky vsichni, rano 7.9.2005 jsme vstali po sedme hodine, osprchovali se a sli na vlak. V odbavovaci mistnosti jsme nechali batohy a poposli do druhych dveri, kde nas cekal upraveny vypravci, ktery kontroloval listky a pasy. Nasedli jsme do vlaku, posnidali a v 8:00 hodin se vlak rozjel smer Cusco. Obsluhoval nas prijemny personal, vybrali jsme si obedove menu, neco k piti, taky k poslechu nam hrali mistni indiani a zpivali devcata. Cesta trvala 10 hodin, byla pohodlna, projizdeli jsme nadhernyma horama And a minuli jsme par vesnicek. Zeleznice Puno-Cusco je nejvyse polozenou zeleznici na svete ( nejvyssi bod vesnice La Raya 4321 m.n.m.). Vice informaci na www.perurail.com. V 18:00 hodin jsme dojeli na vlakove nadrazi v Cuscu. Vyzvedli jsme si batohy a u nadrazi nas cekala Yvonne, pani, se kterou jsme odjeli do hotelu Magnolias. ... read more