El Valle Sagrado de los Incas (the Sacred Valley of the Incas), Urubamba Valley, is the area surrounding Cusco in the Peruvian Andes. Feel free to read my part 1 blog entry on the week I spent in the Sacred Valley. Key standout locations that I visited Salineras, the hot salt springs has become a …
El Valle Sagrado de los Incas (the Sacred Valley of the Incas), Urubamba Valley, is the area surrounding Cusco in the Peruvian Andes. For those making the pilgrimage to Machu Picchu, spending time in the towns in and around Cusco is an amazing experience of itself. It also helps with acclimatising to the altitude (Cusco …
Hiking the Inca trail has been a dream of mine for a long time, and when an opportunity came up to join friends to do it, I hardly needed any convincing! Machu Picchu is the destination of this amazing trail (I'll write a separate blog entry about Machu Picchu), and we were incredibly fortunate to …
Trujillo is a northern coastal city in Peru, much less visited than the popular Cusco (gateway to the Inca trail) and the capital Lima. I was drawn there to see the remnants of the Chan Chan adobe civilisation, as well as explore a less-touristed part of Peru. Key standout locations that I visited Chan Chan, …
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