Day: 414 Since our (primarly mine) forward planning skills are slightly lacking, today for our train ride back down the mountain to Cusco we had to take the pricier ¨Vistadome Class¨ train, complete with clear ceiling and a snack which included a very small sandwich, a cookie, a tiny cheesecake tart, and a cup [...]
Day: 413 With the goal of making our Macchu Pichu day slightly different from everyone elses we have seen, Felicia got the great idea of bringing along a friend with a similar name to make it fully enjoyable. We were up on the ruins by a little after 6am and enjoyed about 15 minutes of [...]
Day: 412 4:45 We were all awake to catch the “Backpacker Class” train to Macchu Pichu, still an obscene $48 one way for a 4 hour train ride (aka Europe Prices). When we arrived at the station we were stoked that there were only 6 people in front of us in the line where we [...]
Day: 411 We all sat around eating, drinking and wandering around Cusco today, stalking up on snacks for the next few days in Macchu Pichu.
Day: 410 So, last night after we got into Cusco after the horrendiously long bus ride we decided the city felt like everyone was just trying to get your money, although it definately is the cleanest and well kept city I have been to in South America . It is after all, the most popular [...]
Day: 409 Just for anyone who was interested in knowing; when buying a ¨Direct¨bus ticket in Copacabana, Bolivia to Cusco, Peru, Direct actually means share a minivan with 7 others to the border, walk across both exit and entry points with all your bags, share another minivan for 30 minutes to the side of a [...]
Day: 372 One last excessive travel day for the next few weeks started today, with the goal of making it from Arequipa, Peru to the San Pedro de Atacama desert in northern Chile where we plan to make our transition into southern Bolivia. A cab pulled up at our hostal at 6:35am and we headed [...]
Day: 371 As I said in the last post, I am currently exhausted as I write both these posts at the same time. To make my extremely hard life (sarcasm), harder, I have a bus into the driest desert on the planet (in northern Chile) tomorrow morning with the sunrise. You picture hungry people out [...]
Day: 370 Colca Valley is the worlds deepest canyon, even more so than the Grand Canyon, unfortunately after spending two days getting on and off the uber-touristy tourist bus non-stop, I am not really up to writing much. Needless to say, to have such a vast canyon you need great altitudes (upwards of 5000 meters), [...]
Day: 369 I did three things today; I took care of lots of internet based “business” for a number of hours in the morning, writing emails that needed written, checking up on things that needed checking on, and working on a few of the weddings I have booked for the summer. We spent the afternoon [...]
