Postcards from abroad
Some of our loyal subscribers have asked if there’ll be a quiz this time - and the answer is: of course! We’ve been saving up possible candidates for questions since we arrived in Peru to post when there wasn’t much that might interest you. Today was that day because we have spent much of it… Continue reading It’s time for the quiz!
Tomorrow we fly to Cajamarca. We don’t think there’ll be much to report so get ready for the quiz instead of a post! I am sure our regular readers will be very excited. Today - more excitement. We were picked up from our eccentric hotel built by our charming host Avilardo (the rally driver) as… Continue reading Pisac when the rain arrives
We are staying in a completely bonkers but very comfortable hotel (seven rooms) away from the tourist parts of the Sacred Valley. We decided to walk to an Inka ruin, Urca, about which we know nothing, because it was fairly close and the walking was easy. The Sacred Valley is immensely lush with steep mountains… Continue reading A walk in the Sacred Valley and a bonkers hotel
Another full-on day visiting Inka sites, learning about making and dying alpaca wool, being dazed by Inka farming and visiting ancient salt pans. This is a highly-selective introduction to some of the things we saw and learnt. An early stop at a weaving studio in Chinchero and we were smitten with this small boy who… Continue reading Traditions: weaving, growing and making salt
What a morning! We set off to visit four Inka sites close to Cusco with our lovely driver Wilber (!) and stopped first at the ‘Christo Blanco’ that towers over Cusco to look at the view of the city and the patriotic carvings in the hillside: Our first stop was the ‘Temple of the Waters’,… Continue reading Inca ruins round Cusco