Category: Peru

Killawasi Lodge We finished off our stay in Peru with a visit to the historic city of Arequipa and the small town of Yanque near Colca Canyon, the Grand Canyon of Peru.  In Arequipa, we visited a museum which tells the story behind several frozen bodies found on peaks around Peru and Chile.  The highlight…

We pampered ourselves with a day aboard the Orient Express train from Cusco to Lake Titicaca.  We were entertained non-stop with fashion shows, Pisco Sour cocktail making lessons (Peru’s national drink), and elegant meals as we spent 10 hours passing through small towns scattered throughout the beautiful countryside.  We continued spoiling ourselves with a night at…

So what do you write about a world wonder…..I wonder!  And we did wonder, or more accurately, we were awed. We broke away from Cusco to visit one of the most famous locations in the world.  The highlight of our three day, two night journey down from Cusco was Machu Picchu.  In fact, many people…

Cusco, the capital of the Incas and the longest continuously inhabited city in South America, became our home for the week. We booked a room in an apartment-hotel on the hillside of San Blas reachable only on foot via an unending set of stairs. You would not think stairs would matter to our athletic Colorado…

We set out on our big adventure early on a Thursday morning.  Thanks to Dunbar for getting up VERY early to get us there.  In contrast to our last departure from DIA, we felt like we didn’t have any luggage.  Since we will be traveling from country to country without a home base we tried…