The only way to travel

The only way to travel

Our last day in Cuzco was the day of the national census. To our aston­ish­ment, everything was closed. We had planned to get a bus to Maras, a taxi to Moray and then a bus back to Chinchero for the Sunday market. With no buses run­ning, we ended up...
The only way to travel

Machu Picchu

Everything they say is true. Aguas Cali­entes is a tacky tour­ist town; the entire train trip there and prices in town are out­rageous with dis­crim­in­at­ory pri­cing for tour­ists and it’s all worth it.On the first day, we got onto the bus and clutched each...

Oh-yan-tay-tam-bo

We ended up treat­ing the name of this town like a tongue-twister: Ollantaytambo, ollantaytambo. It’s the “y” of the “olla”, you see. Very hard to get around.But we made it to Ollantaytambo on the morn­ing bus out of Pisac and found Hostal Ollanta without...

If this is Wednesday, it must be Pisac

Pisac was lovely. A tiny town of only 2000 souls, the main square was entirely taken up by a col­or­ful market selling everything from jew­elry to back­packs and more. It star­ted to pour so we bought some raingear from the nearby gear shop and I bought...

Pisac

Back to paying for Inter­net. Ah well. At least this place has a com­puter advanced enough to cope with the thumb drive con­tain­ing the images but I don’t have time to arrange pret­tily. You’ll just have to go see for yourself.We spent a lovely day...