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Salineras de Maras
March 9, 2020 in Peru ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
In the salt mines are thousands of little pools deep filled with saltwater carved into the mountainsides.
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Chinchero
March 9, 2020 in Peru ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Chinchero is home to the famous Peruvian weaving. Also is believed to be the birthplace of the rainbow.
Chinchero has also inca ruins with pink stone walls. The construction are aqueducts and terraces for farming and agricultural purposes.Read more
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Q'enqo
March 10, 2020 in Peru ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
Q'enqo was a religious center designed to worship fertility, and the name means "labyrinth". The whole structure is said to be built in the shape of the sacred puma. Sacrifices and mummification took place within the cave and on top there may have been an astronomic observatory.Read more
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Puka Pukara
March 10, 2020 in Peru ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
Puka Pukara was a place of lodging and an administrative and military headquarter. Located in a beautiful lush green valley, it was also a warehouse for food. The name means "Red Fortress".
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Sacred Valley of the Incas
March 10, 2020 in Peru ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
The Sacred Valley of the Incas (Valle Sagrado de los Incas) or the Urubamba Valley, in the Andes. Lot of archaeological sites and modern towns are located in the Sacred Valley.
The Pisac ruins are the agricultural terracing, which sweeps around the south and east flanks of the mountain in curves. The terracing is joined by diagonal flights of stairs made of flagstones set into the terrace walls. Above the terraces are cliff-hugging footpaths, watched over by caracara falcons and well defended by massive stone doorways, steep stairs and a short tunnel carved out of the rock.
Typical inca dishes: rolls with peruvian black mint butter, causa, potato soup, stuffed spicy chili pepper (rocoto) with quinoa and anden potatos, strawberry sorbet and cheesecake. 😋 In the andes exist more than 3,500 varieties of potatoes.Read more
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Ollantaytambo
March 10, 2020 in Peru ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Ollantaytambo is a town and an Inca archaeological site. It is located at an altitude of 2,792 m above sea level. During the Inca Empire Ollantaytambo was the royal estate of Emperor Pachacuti who conquered the region, and built the town and a ceremonial center. It is located en route to one of the most common starting points for the four-day, three-night hike known as the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.Read more
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Machu Picchu Pueblo
March 11, 2020 in Peru ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Machu Picchu Pueblo or Aguas Calientes, is the closest access point to the historical site of Machu Picchu which is 6 kilometres away or about a 1.5 hours walk.

Typical peruvian food: causa limeña, ceviche and yuca ball.Read more
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Machu Picchu
March 12, 2020 in Peru ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Machu Picchu, one of the seven worldwonders. The Incas built the estate around 1450 but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish conquest. It was not known to the Spanish during the colonial period and remained unknown to the outside world until American historian Bingham brought it to international attention in 1911. Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls. Its three primary structures are the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun and the Room of the Three Widows.
Amazing view to Machu Picchu at 6 a.m. 😍 getting up early was worth it.Read more
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Rainbow Mountain
March 13, 2020 in Peru ⋅ ⛅ 7 °C
Montaña de Colores or Rainbow Mountain with an altitude of 5.200 meters above sea level.The series of stripes of various colors, is due to its mineralogical composition present on the slopes and summits.
After an 2 hour steep hike you reach the top. The view is amazing.Read more
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Cusco
March 13, 2020 in Peru ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Last peruvian dinner. Rainbow trout with Quinoa and Maracuja Magarita. 😋
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Cusco Airport
March 14, 2020 in Peru ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Instead of continuing to Bolivia I am returning home because of corona shut down and border closure in south america for the next 30 days. Just a couple of hours left to leave the country. Border closure in south america came without any warning.
It is so sad.😭Read more
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Lima Airport
March 14, 2020 in Peru ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Waiting for connection flight to Panamá. Border closure is aproaching. 😳
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Panamá City Airport
March 14, 2020 in Panama ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Last stop in central america... so sad about canceling my trip.
Got the last flight out of Panama before border closure.
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Back home
March 15, 2020 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
End of the trip after 4 countries in 7 weeks instead of 7 countries in 11 weeks. 😥
Covid 19 unfortunately breaks my travel journey. But I will continue the trip.
Welcome to the lockdown in Germany. 🙈
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Trip end
March 15, 2020