Onto Boca Colorado
2024年5月18日, ペルー ⋅ 🌙 24 °C
Rain during the night leaves some of us a bit damp. Pack up as clouds clear and sun pops out. Spot monkeys right above our camp. Head out and immediately see a caiman doing a belly flop. Turtlesもっと詳しく
Back to civilization
2024年5月19日, ペルー ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Incredibly rainy night. So glad we were sleeping inside. Take a car over a rocky road and over very sketchy bridges. Transfer to a ferry and then to another car. Rain continues. Board our final carもっと詳しく
And then there were two
2024年5月20日, ペルー ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Day spent on various errands and the girls preparing to leave. Nice vegetarian dinner
Back to the sacred valley
2024年5月21日, ペルー ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Pack up and catch a ride down to Yuncay and our bikes. Load up and make our way to little home with big garden. Another big festival complete with bands and a walk up the mountain with a cross.
Salineras de Maras .. finally
2024年5月22日, ペルー ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Did some bike cleaning and maintenance in the morning and then headed out on bikes towards the trailhead for Salinas de Maras. Bit of a steep climb but with nice views Ali g the way. Quite busy andもっと詳しく
Up the river … almost to the top
2024年5月23日, ペルー ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Opted to go for a hike up to our nearby ridge. Followed the river as it cut its way down the valley. Lost the trail for a bit as we got closer to the top. Then hit a blocked trail. Gave up on ourもっと詳しく
A return to camping
2024年5月24日, ペルー ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Left out little house and rode further down the valley to Ollantantambo. Found a nice
Campground by the river. Walk the dusty road back to Ollantantambo and hike up Pinkuylluna - across the valleyもっと詳しく
Inti Punku sun gate
2024年5月25日, ペルー ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Take a ‘short cut’ back towards town that winds up being sketchy and time consuming. Finally get to the start of the real hike - up 3500 ft to sun gate. Lots of stairs and a bit of altitudeもっと詳しく
Market day
2024年5月26日, ペルー ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Opt to relax and enjoy the surroundings without to much exertion. Do head back to Urubamaba for the market and land upon a colorful festival.
One last river valley hike
2024年5月27日, ペルー ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Follow tourist circuit along a river leading into the mountains behind Ollantaytambo. Stick to the trail and catch the archeological sites. Ultimately lose the trail and wind up on the road. Opt toもっと詳しく
Up and out of the valley
2024年5月28日, ペルー ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Pack up and make our way to what appears to be the best road out of the valley. Follow a river and train tracks as we gradually wind our way up to the plateau. A few interesting sites along the way.もっと詳しく
And we are back in Cusco
2024年5月29日, ペルー ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Continue our ride along a very busy road heading towards Cusco. Have to go further up before we can go back down into Cusco. Find a relatively quieter way into the city but are a bit challenged toもっと詳しく
Cusco Highlights
2024年5月30日, ペルー ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Found ourselves in a huge celebration of Corpus Christi. Saints and crowds abound. Found peace and quiet in the museo del arte precolombino. Did a few errands and back up the hill we go (after againもっと詳しく
Transition to lowlands
2024年5月31日, ペルー ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Return to where I had walked the night before - venturing further away from the city. Retuned to pack up and ride down to our hostel. A much easier endeavor than getting up the hill. Wandered aroundもっと詳しく
Prepping for the trek
2024年6月1日, ペルー ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Day spent organizing, doing a bit of shopping and visiting the Inka museum. Ran into a celebration of
Peru’s military. Went to our orientation meeting and out for burgers
Salkantay Trek - Day 1
2024年6月2日, ペルー ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Very early morning. 2 hour van ride to mollentay for breakfast. Then another hour or so to the start of the trek. Head up into the mountains. Short hike to our first campsite. Have lunch and then upもっと詳しく
Up and over Salkantay
2024年6月3日, ペルー ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Very early morning! Quickly pack up, have breakfast and head off to the pass. Quite chilly but brilliant blue sky. Quite crowded with both people and pack animals. Successfully deal with the climb andもっと詳しく
Short hike, coffee & hot springs
2024年6月5日〜6日, ペルー ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Sleep in a bit (plus they are late in rousing us and getting breakfast together). Continue following the river on an “Inca flat” trail. Lots of short ups and downs - with the path clinging to theもっと詳しく
On to Machu Picchu pueblo
2024年6月5日, ペルー ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Another early morning as we have a long hike. Our group had gotten bigger as the subgroups have merged. Up we go on the Inca trail. Quite crowded for most of the up. As we head down get our firstもっと詳しく
Machu Picchu
2024年6月6日, ペルー ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Our group is down to 6 as we climb up the steep stairs to Machu Picchu. Meet our tour guide and in we go. Lots of people but they can’t spoil the magnificent sights. Beautiful day! Back down andもっと詳しく
Wrapping up Cusco
2024年6月7日, ペルー ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Unable to sleep very late but lay in bed awhile. Highlights of the day include pastries, ceviche, shopping, one last museum and a nice dinner. And of course they are celebrating in the streets andもっと詳しく
A long bus ride
2024年6月8日, ペルー ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
Last stroll through Cusco and of course more parades and celebrations. Arrive at the terminal with plenty of time to spare, only to be told that the bikes couldn’t go on the bus. Ultimately theyもっと詳しく
Lima
2024年6月9日, ペルー ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
The sun rises as we finally drop down to sea level (after a night of lots of ups and downs and twisting roads). Sadly our furry friend is taken from us. Finally arrive in Lima and after reassembling,もっと詳しく
A last ride in Lima
2024年6月10日, ペルー ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Enjoy a final ride along the coast. Impressed even more by cycling infrastructure. Work on securing boxes and packing materials. Nice seafood dinner.
Packing up
2024年6月11日, ペルー ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
After a failure with the prearranged bike boxes, managed to find other ones
relatively quickly. Did find the “cat park” - a rather large green space filled with well cared ore cats. Spend most ofもっと詳しく