Aguas Calientes, Peru, South America I had another excellent day of zip lining and hiking today, along part of the original Inca Trail. We started out with a breakfast back at Mama Coca’s at 7am, and then we took a ride for about 15 minutes to the start of the zip lining place. They seemed to be in a hurry to get us through, so they threw the harnesses on us and then we started our 25 minute hike up…
Santa Teresa, Peru, South America I had a great day of trekking today! We started out with a really good breakfast at the hostel that included crepes with bananas and fresh juice. It turns out that fresh papaya juice smells like vomit though, so it’s not the best drink. We got our energy and headed off for our day of hiking. We got a ride in the back of a truck for about 15 minutes to the start of the…
Santa Maria, Peru, South America I had an awesome day of biking today! It all started with a really early rise at the hostel in Cusco and a check out at 5:30am. I left my big bag there for when I return from Machu Picchu on Monday night. I walked down to McDonalds on the main square to get picked up by Lorenzo Expeditions. I met a couple of other people on the tour and we got picked up promptly…
Cusco, Peru, South America I had another fairly quiet day today, but that’s good considering my next four days should be pretty intense. I went to Pan-tastico for breakfast today and had the best breakfast since I’ve been in South America. I had eggs, good crispy bacon (!), pineapple juice, italian bread that was sliced and grilled with peanut butter and jam on the side, and pancakes! It was awesome! I met up with Karin at 10:15am so we could…
Cusco, Peru, South America I had a slow start to the day, but it was pretty nice. I got to take a hot shower at my hostel, which I wasn’t too sure was going to be possible. It’s not the nicest hostel, so I wouldn’t have been surprised if it was only cold showers, but I’m really glad it’s not. It’s pretty chilly here in the morning and the evening, so a cold shower would have been miserable. The hostel…
Cusco, Peru, South America The bus ride last night was very comfortable, but the ride was so windy and curvy that I was hardly able to get any sleep. Luckily my seat had an electric port so I was able to use my laptop for the whole ride and finished watching season four of the Walking Dead. At least that helped pass the time. We were supposed to arrive in Cusco at 12:30pm, but at that point we were stopped…
Nasca, Peru, South America There’s not a lot to do here in Nazca, besides flying over the lines, so today was a pretty quiet one. I hung out at the hostel for a bit, went for a walk around the town center (which was very short), and then came back to the hostel to chill. I checked out in the morning, but my night bus wasn’t leaving until 9:30pm, so Jose said I could just hang out in the lounge…
Nasca, Peru, South America I had my flight over the Nazca lines this morning, and it was pretty awesome! It started with an early wake up call, and I was picked up by the tour company at 7am. There were already a bunch of french people in the van, and we went straight to the airport from my hostel. It was only about a ten minute drive to the airport, and there were quite a few people there waiting to…
Nasca, Peru, South America I got up at 5am today to get packed up for my bus ride. I got a taxi from the Gran Hotel and made it to the bus terminal for about 6:30am. I grabbed a bite to eat and then got settled into my bus for the next nine hours. It was only meant to be 7.5 hours, but we came across a pretty bad accident on the road to Nazca and that held us up…
Lima, Peru, South America Today was pretty productive, though I didn’t really get to do much in Lima. I finally got to take care of my insurance forms that I needed to fill out, print, sign, and scan. This is all for the stuff that was stolen from me when I was in Banos, Ecuador. Being on the road and staying in hostels, it’s not very easy to find a place that has a printer and scanner, so I ended…