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Touring around Lima
We had two full days to visit Lima, and decided to roughly split them up and use day one to explore the older part of the city and the historical centre, and use day two to visit a museum as well as...
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Dinner at Central Restaurant, Lima
Warning before you read this post. It contains drastic food porn, and should definitely not be viewed when hungry. When browsing on TripAdvisor for places to eat in Lima, we found Central which was the...
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Lima to Cuzco on TACA, and the Hotel Monasterio, Cuzco
We’d booked a slightly later flight to Cuzco, thinking it would let us sleep in at least a little bit and a terribly early morning, but the one thing we didn’t take into account is that a 9:55...
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Touring and Dining around Cuzco, Peru
By the time we got to Cuzco and checked into the hotel, we basically had one and a half full days to explore the city. Plan was to get some lunch and explore the sites nearer the hotel and then spend...
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Cuzco to Aguas Calientes on the Vistadome train
We purchased our tickets from Cuzco to Aguas Calientes (the town at the foot of the mountain Machu Picchu sits on) about three weeks in advance on the PeruRail website, which was quite easy and...
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Touring around Aguas Calientes, and the SUMAQ hotel
We were met at the Aguas Calientes railway station by the SUMAQ hotel porter, who put our bags in their cart and then…wheeled them to the hotel. We didn’t know there were no cars in town, so everywhere...
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Machu Picchu
By the time we’d grabbed a small snack, the drizzle had turned into a steady light rain…not a good sign for our afternoon at Machu Picchu. Let me back up here and talk about tickets a bit. You can in...
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Aguas Calientes to DC via Cuzco, Lima, and New York
Fortunately our train out of Aguas Calientes was in the afternoon, so we had a chance to sleep in and take it easy in Aguas Calientes before we had to be at the train station for the ride back. We...
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La Paz, Bolivia to Medellin, Colombia on TACA Peru (via Lima)
Thanks to the hotel, had another “taxi of death” experience up to El Alto, where the driver showed absolutely zero fear weaving in and out of traffic as he worked his way up the side of the mountain to...
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Upcoming Plans
So, yeah, it’s been a long time since I’ve written a travel blog. I think after Iceland I was a bit exhausted, and combine that with the fact that October-December are always my busiest months at work...
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