Mar 16, 2010 - First day with the street children

¡Hola! Today was our first day working with the street children.¡Hola! Today was our first day working with the street children....

Mar 15, 2010 - Cusco, Peru

Hi all! or should i say ¡Hola! Finally arrived here in Cusco on Saturday after a very long journey including 12hours overnight stay sleeping in Lima airport, feeling like true travellers!!! Cusco is amazing! Such a beautiful country surrounded by the Andes and other mountains. ... It is so green and simply beautiful! We are staying in a sort of guesthouse with two other girls Julie, an older woman from Glasgow, and Saho, a japonese student.Hi all! or should i say ¡Hola! Finally arrived here in Cusco on Saturday after a very long journey including 12hours overnight stay sleeping in Lima airport, feeling like true travellers!!! Cusco is amazing! Such a beautiful country surrounded by the Andes and other mountains. ... It is so green and simply beautiful! We are staying in a sort of guesthouse with two other girls Julie, an older woman from Glasgow, and Saho, a japonese student....

Feb 20, 2010 - Les Cousi à Cusco

C'est vraiment l'image qu'on se faisait de Cusco. ... L'attrait touristique de Cusco tient aussi à sa proximité avec la Vallée Sacrée des Incas. ... Situé à proximité de Cusco, c'était aussi une sorte de résidence secondaire pour les Rois Incas. ... Après 2 jours passés avec les Incas, on a été ravis de revenir à Cusco. ...

Feb 1, 2010 - Alternative Trek-C ... Machu Pichu is closed...FOREVER!!!!!!!

The 6 of us awoke on the Thursdays morning to good news. We left the hotel, boarded a bus and headed out of Cusco to meet up with our porters and cooks. ... We were instead, picked up from the Inca site, driven to the salt mines, and then driven back to Cusco. ... This new plan came as a relief to me as I had spent an hour or so the night before, popping a number of blisters on my feet, which I had accumulated over the past 38km.The 6 of us awoke on the Thursdays morning to good news. We left the hotel, boarded a bus and headed out of Cusco to meet up with our porters and cooks. ... We were instead, picked up from the Inca site, driven to the salt mines, and then driven back to Cusco. ... This new plan came as a relief to me as I had spent an hour or so the night before, popping a number of blisters on my feet, which I had accumulated over the past 38km....

Jan 27, 2010 - Machu Pichu - A No No

The night bus which was supposed to take only 10 hours to reach Cusco, took 15. ... We have had 3 full days in Cusco. ... Cusco is full of shops selling fake North Face gear. ...

Jan 23, 2010 - Cusco

The bus ride to Cusco took 29 hours, which was 8 hours longer than it should have taken because it is currently rainy season and there have been mudslides and rivers bursting their banks all around Cusco. ... Cusco is going to be my base for the next 2 weeks as I have decided to do some voluntary work at the Aldea Yanapay School (www. ... aldeayanapay.The bus ride to Cusco took 29 hours, which was 8 hours longer than it should have taken because it is currently rainy season and there have been mudslides and rivers bursting their banks all around Cusco. ... Cusco is going to be my base for the next 2 weeks as I have decided to do some voluntary work at the Aldea Yanapay School (www. ... aldeayanapay....

Dec 7, 2009 - Inca Heartland

Finally I arrived in Cusco, and I spent my first two days here sleeping and eating, and being generally lazy. ... I don´t know if fatigue can be blamed on Cusco´s 11000-foot altitude but let´s go with that. ... Cusco has a nice plaza like Arequipa but it´s a LOT more touristy. ... In Cusco I had the most delicious Middle Eastern food-- way tastier than what I ate in the real Middle East! Also I finally got a hold of Thai food, which was served without a knife, the authentic Thai way, and I was impressed. ... The only cultural thing I did in Cusco besides eat ice cream in the plaza watching schoolkids dodge traffic was go to the history/archaeology museum. ...

Nov 23, 2009 - transit home

Hi all about to begin the trip home.Hi all about to begin the trip home....

Nov 20, 2009 - the trek!

Hi everyone, sorry we have been out of touch, we have been busy crossing the andes without internet access! here´s a rundown of what has been happening since we last caught you up day one: we got up early and bussed over to ollaytantambo, a small village of 2000 people, we were given our duffel bags to pack our trek gears into and had some free time to explore. Day eight (today): Free day in Cusco, shopping, recovering and laughing. ... Crazy taxi´s everywhere in the company of Liz and her father John (the aussies).Hi everyone, sorry we have been out of touch, we have been busy crossing the andes without internet access! here´s a rundown of what has been happening since we last caught you up day one: we got up early and bussed over to ollaytantambo, a small village of 2000 people, we were given our duffel bags to pack our trek gears into and had some free time to explore. Day eight (today): Free day in Cusco, shopping, recovering and laughing. ... Crazy taxi´s everywhere in the company of Liz and her father John (the aussies)....

Nov 12, 2009 - cusco without altitude sickness

Hola! Buenas Tardes. Tomorrow brings more sightseeing at 500m lower than where we are now, so we should feel even more active, we start trekking on saturday eek! We both really love cusco, its vibrant, friendly and yet ancient and traditional. ... The buildings all have inner courtyards, in the colonial spanish style.Hola! Buenas Tardes. Tomorrow brings more sightseeing at 500m lower than where we are now, so we should feel even more active, we start trekking on saturday eek! We both really love cusco, its vibrant, friendly and yet ancient and traditional. ... The buildings all have inner courtyards, in the colonial spanish style....

Nov 11, 2009 - Peru: Cusco - Champs Meet

This past Friday we had the Cusco region Championship Swim Meet at the Wanchaq pool. ... Swim season is now over for us as we prepare to leave Cusco and explore the rest of Peru. ...

Nov 10, 2009 - ¡muy bien señores!

Knowing that you have to wake up at 430am to spend the next three nights hiking to Machu Picchu is somewhat detrimental to a peaceful nights sleep, we were both exhausted but thrilled on Friday morning when we hopped on the bus to Ollantaytambo and met the rest of the trekkers in our group. Our first day in Cusco I could barely climb one flight of stairs without passing out, and there we were sprinting up steep Inca Steps with no hesitation. ... Several in our group, including Mom, got sick just as we were boarding the train back to Cusco—we think the water supply on our last day or two might have been contaminated. ... I escaped the worst of it, but Mom is recovering in the hotel room today.Knowing that you have to wake up at 430am to spend the next three nights hiking to Machu Picchu is somewhat detrimental to a peaceful nights sleep, we were both exhausted but thrilled on Friday morning when we hopped on the bus to Ollantaytambo and met the rest of the trekkers in our group. Our first day in Cusco I could barely climb one flight of stairs without passing out, and there we were sprinting up steep Inca Steps with no hesitation. ... Several in our group, including Mom, got sick just as we were boarding the train back to Cusco—we think the water supply on our last day or two might have been contaminated. ... I escaped the worst of it, but Mom is recovering in the hotel room today....