Travel-Stained Life

Things we learned: Currency: Soles (3 Soles=$1 USD) Cities Visited: Trujillo, Lima, Arequipa, Cusco, Ollantaytambo, Aguas Calientes, Puno In the cities we visited, there wasn´t a central bus terminal where you can find most bus companies in one building.  Instead, there are lots of buildings that house individual bus companies.  Buses in this country are [...]

Amantani island was our second destination on Lake Titicaca and it was to be where our home-stay took place.  Upon disembarkment, families and tourists are ¨assigned¨ to each other.  Assignments really just depended on how many people were in the party and how many the family could take.  Our group of three was the last to [...]

At more than 12,000 feet above sea level, Lake Titicaca is considered the ¨highest navigable lake in the world¨ and it was our last destination as we made our way out of Peru.  Back in Cusco, we met a fellow traveler who had told us that we could get a tour package in Puno (the [...]

Finally, after two and a half months of traveling, we had reached what will probably be the highlight of the first third of our round the world trip…Machu Picchu.  It is a magical place somehow built with massive stones on top of a mountain peak with 400 meter vertical cliffs surrounding.  It is unknown what [...]

Arequipa is a Peruvian town that could easily be put in a category with all of the other South American towns we’ve already visited.  However, there are a couple of extra special things that sets it apart from the rest of the world. First, a visitor will find it essential to wear sunglasses here as [...]