BLOG: Peru Trip, September 2024
In 2024, after nine years in Argentina, we had yet to see Peru. So, we combined visits to Cusco and Lima with a trip to the US for Dad’s 85th birthday. The blog below details our week-long adventure. We loved it and plan to return!
If you’d like to skip the commentary, the complete photo album for both Cusco and Lima is here: Cusco and Lima 2024
DAY 4: CUSCO, PERU
September 4, 2024 Our tour guide, Dennis, arrived at the hotel at 7 am to collect us for our private, all-day tour of the Sacred Valley. After a 45-minute drive, we arrived in Chinchero, a small Peruvian town at 3760 meters (12,336 feet) featuring Incan ruins and colonial 17th-century structures built on top of the…
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DAY 3: CUSCO, PERU
September 3, 2024 This morning, we set out to visit Sacsayhuaman, an hour’s climb straight up from our hotel. Sacsayhuaman is an Incan ceremonial temple of worship (later referred to as a citadel by the Spaniards) on the city’s northern outskirts at 3700 meters (12,140 feet) and the most prominent structure built by the Incas…
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DAYS 1 and 2: CUSCO, PERU
September 1-2, 2024 We flew directly from Mendoza to Lima and then caught a plane to Cusco. You fly into the city around the mountains and then into the valley below; it is quite a landing with a breathtaking view of the valley, revealing a city of half a million people. Our hotel, the Atoq…
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