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Location Date Puno 1410390000 Cusco
1410217200 Machu Picchu 1410217200 Aguas Calientes 1410130800 Ollantaytambo 1410044400 Chivay 1409353200 Cabanaconde 1409353200 Sangalle 1409266800 Reserva Nacional Salinas Y Aguada Blancas 1409180400 Yanque 1409180400 Pinchollo 1409180400 Arequipa 1409094000 Huacachina 1408834800 Ica 1408575600 Lima 1408489200 Huaraz 1408316400 Trujillo 1407884400 Piura 1407711600 -
Location Date Tue, 09 September 2014 1410249600 Sat, 06 September 2014 1409990280 Fri, 05 September 2014
1409927520 Thu, 04 September 2014 1409841120 Wed, 03 September 2014 1409755560 Tue, 02 September 2014 1409668260 Mon, 01 September 2014 1409581860 Sun, 31 August 2014 1409495460
We started the day with some chores - hard life, eh. We needed to sort out laundry before the Inka Jungle Tour starting tomorrow and we wanted to sort out bus tickets back to Puno and then on to Bolivia.
It was too difficult to buy the bus tickets online so we walked the 45 minutes through the city to the bus station. There were a few choices of bus companies and we chose one for no other reason than we could buy both the Cusco/Puno and Puno/Bolivia tickets at the same booth. It didn't actually turn out that way though. After getting the Bolivia ticket, the guy walked us over to another booth to buy the Puno one. It was the same price and the bus looked the same so we bought the ticket.
On the way back from the bus station the rain started, it was the forecast but still not expected or welcome; we were quite liking the bright blue sky with the odd white, fluffy cloud. The rain came down harder the closer we got to the city centre and we decided to buy a poncho for Maria. If it was going to rain, as forecasted, over the next few days then some proper rainwear was needed while tramping.
We met Andy and Carlee for lunch at Don Pimiento. Their 'Menu del Diá' was much more to everyone's liking today. We had a four course meal for s/.9, that's about NZ$ 3, and the food was really good. No wonder the place was packed with locals.
We spent the remainder of the afternoon updating the blog, it's actually quite time consuming. Then we received a phone call from Conde Travel letting us know that our tour was being canceled because of demonstrations close to Santa Teresa. Santa Teresa is a village that the tour route passes through and there were no alternative routes.
We walked down to the shop and talked through the options with them. We could walk the Salkantay track, the hardest 5 day tramp into Machu Picchu, or take a guided 2 day trip on the train to Machu Picchu (which would cost us more than the 4 day trip that was being canceled).
We opted to take our money back and sort out our own trip to Machu Picchu instead. Our hostel was really good, we changed our booking and moved a booked day from next week to tomorrow night. We then bought our train tickets with Peru Rail so we will still be in Machu Picchu on Tuesday as planned. We don't want to mess up our onward travel into Bolivia.
It was too difficult to buy the bus tickets online so we walked the 45 minutes through the city to the bus station. There were a few choices of bus companies and we chose one for no other reason than we could buy both the Cusco/Puno and Puno/Bolivia tickets at the same booth. It didn't actually turn out that way though. After getting the Bolivia ticket, the guy walked us over to another booth to buy the Puno one. It was the same price and the bus looked the same so we bought the ticket.
On the way back from the bus station the rain started, it was the forecast but still not expected or welcome; we were quite liking the bright blue sky with the odd white, fluffy cloud. The rain came down harder the closer we got to the city centre and we decided to buy a poncho for Maria. If it was going to rain, as forecasted, over the next few days then some proper rainwear was needed while tramping.
We met Andy and Carlee for lunch at Don Pimiento. Their 'Menu del Diá' was much more to everyone's liking today. We had a four course meal for s/.9, that's about NZ$ 3, and the food was really good. No wonder the place was packed with locals.
We spent the remainder of the afternoon updating the blog, it's actually quite time consuming. Then we received a phone call from Conde Travel letting us know that our tour was being canceled because of demonstrations close to Santa Teresa. Santa Teresa is a village that the tour route passes through and there were no alternative routes.
We walked down to the shop and talked through the options with them. We could walk the Salkantay track, the hardest 5 day tramp into Machu Picchu, or take a guided 2 day trip on the train to Machu Picchu (which would cost us more than the 4 day trip that was being canceled).
We opted to take our money back and sort out our own trip to Machu Picchu instead. Our hostel was really good, we changed our booking and moved a booked day from next week to tomorrow night. We then bought our train tickets with Peru Rail so we will still be in Machu Picchu on Tuesday as planned. We don't want to mess up our onward travel into Bolivia.
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