Blogs from Lares Trek, Cusco, Peru, South America - page 5

Booking tours is never a pleasant experience. Even booking a one day tour is a pain in the arse. So imagine trying to book the most important tour of your trip so far, where you are basically trusting a complete stranger to take you into the wilderness of the Andean mountains for four days - yeah imagine booking THAT tour, on your own, after you've slightly overstayed your welcome in an Irish pub the night before. Ouch, ouch indeed. Everything really went belly up from the moment Sib said "Oh look, there's an Irish bar, I BET the grub's good in there!" It was our first afternoon in Cusco, and after recovering from our nightbus, we headed into the main square to get something to eat. That's when Paddy O'Flaherty's came into our life. We didn't ... read more

The Budget cattle were prodded onto a bus once more and whisked away to the sacred valley of the Incas. We started with the Urubamba vallley where we blocked out our guide Julio´s drone, to take photos of the amazing panorama of Cusco, once the foremost city of the Incas. Built in the shape of a puma, this charming city, 3326m above sea-level, was colonised by the Spanish, who mistook ´Cusco´(meaning´navel of the earth´in local Quechan) to mean ´little dog´(in Spanish). We then sidled through a long dark cave before heading back to the bus. Next stop was the llama farm and weaving centre where we had the opportunity to get up close and personal with a range of llamas and alpacas. Well, as close as they would let us anyway! Traditional weaving techniques were on ... read more

Unfortunetly me and linda waited to long to book the inca trail so we had to do an alternative trek...which was amazing. We began by waking up at 6 am and driving two hours through calca to start our hike. We walked through the scared valley to the Machacancha thermo-medicinal springs. The hike was nice, very scenic with lush mountains, the river, tombs in the mountains, and lots and lots of alpaca and llamas. We stopped to have lunch at the hot springs and relax in the springs as well. We then continued our hike to our first campsite. Along the way we meet with lots of kids and handed them school supplies and candy. The kids are all so so adorable. It is amazing how greatful they are for a pen or a lolipop, i ... read more

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