Calgary
May 25, 2023 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 18 °CStill counts as travelling I guess! 🇨🇦🤠
Still counts as travelling I guess! 🇨🇦🤠
Awake at 4:30 to hike up to Machu Picchu in time for the opening at 6am. Dark sweaty hike up and got in at opening time to avoid the crowds. It was cool to go in early with barely any people and fogRead more
Watched the sun rise over Machu Picchu from the window of my room. Pretty awesome! Then had breakfast and started the hike waaaaayyy down the valley to the river (about 1000m down in 5km or so).Read more
Huge avocados!
Cute little family Coffee tour, the family showed us how they pick the beans from their little farm, shell them, ferment and dry them and then roast. Not that hard actually!
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Awake at 4:40am 🤪 but they brought a mug of Coca tea to wake up and help with altitude. Little breakfast (always the same in Peru and Bolivia: dry thin bread bun thing with butter and jam and anRead more
5am pickup and drive 3-4 bumpy hours to Challacancha village to start the Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu.
Have 4 others in our group: a Swiss couple, a Romanian woman, and an American guy. EveryoneRead more
Day Biking Tour from La Paz to the “Death Road”. A 35km section of infamously dangerous road through a valley outside of the city. We drove first 45 minutes up to the summit La Cumbre at 4500m,Read more
Welcome home! [Cathy]