Our lodge, the Inkaterra Pueblo, has a number of programs available for guests. We decided to take a tour of their ‘Spectacled Bear’ rehab program in the morning. The lodge is in the ‘cloud forest’ of Peru and is an environment favored by these endangered bears (along with a gazillian hummingbird species). Our guide takes…
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One last breakfast on the terrace and we bid adieu to Sol y Luna. Marco drives us back to Ollantaytambo to catch the train for Machu Pichu. All our documents are in order and we are among the first to board. We have about a 1.5-hour train ride through the Sacred Valley to arrive at…
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Rubin is a big fan of missing crowds so we’re off early to visit Ollantaytambo village and Inca complex before the savages arrive. The village is very well preserved and has some of the oldest continuously occupied dwellings in South Americas. It is also quite popular as a tourist attraction as it is near the…
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It’s another early morning pickup by Samuel, our Lima travel assistant. He gets us checked into our flight to Cusco and bids us adieu. We have an uneventful flight with a 9:30 arrival in Cusco. At over 11,000 ft elevation, you can tell you are at high altitude. We hook up with Rubin and Marco,…
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