I’m running about a week behind due to sheer laziness and an overly comfortable hotel bed. As such, I may forget a few of the details but, to balance this, I may well invent a few too – cosmic equilibrium maintained. I arrived in Lima around 6pm and made my way to the Miraflores district:…
Month: September 2016
Rematchu Picchu: the finale
Days 1-3 of this 5-day trek to Machu Picchu via the Salkantay trail have been covered in previous posts so this final part of the trilogy begins on the morning of day four; a day that would lead us down into a valley, along the train tracks and, eventually, to Machu Picchu village, a hot…
Football, hot springs and coffee: part 2 of the Machu Picchu saga
Hola amigos! I left you at mid-afternoon on the second day of a five-day hike to Machu Picchu via Salkantay mountain. As the day wore on we started to pass alternative campsites along the route. In need of quenching our collective thirst, we stopped in at one such place but, no sooner had we finished…
Inca-redible experience: Salkantay and Machu Picchu: part 1
The setting is Cusco, the time is 6:30pm the evening prior to a five day hike, via the mountain of Salkantay, to Machu Picchu. We participants had been informed we were to attend a briefing at the headquarters of Alpaca Expeditions, the agency in whose charge we had placed ourselves. Most uncharacteristically, I arrived late…
Cusco, Peru
After a brief layover in Lima airport, I boarded my internal flight to Cusco, the Andean city from which most tourist journeys to Machu Pichu typically begin. I had been advised by the tour company with whom I had booked to arrive a day or two before the start of my trek in order to…
Montevideo #2: the rowdy bits
Sorry for the leave of absence: I have been off-grid for a few days trekking in the Andes (is there a way to say that without sounding pretentious?). Update on that to follow. Meanwhile, let me take you on a journey back to Montevideo and the second half of my week with Bart and Nathalie. The…
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