Leaving Cusco to Puno was another interesting experience. First we have realized that Peruvians don't queue up in line anywhere, we stand in line after someone is being helped and Peruvians (mostly women) cut right in front of us. So we have learned just to keep our arms out and block off incoming people. When we arrived to the bus station to take us to Puno we handed a lady who worked with the bus company our receipt or proof of payment for our bus trip. In exc...

So Cusco part 2 was much better. We arrived from Pisaq/Sacred Valley to Cusco in the afternoon on the 4th. But we came in from a collectivo and were dropped off in a part of the city that we had never seen before. So we get our giant backpacks and start walking just trying to find Plaza de Armas, since that's the main square. After asking a few people and walking for about 20 minutes we find the main square and make our way to San Blas, which is the bohemian dist...

El Valle de Sagrado de Las Incas, is a big damn valley. We arrived to Ollantaytambo around 8pm and my immediate reaction was that I loved this town. We did not have a hostel booked but we found this little guy, he was about my height, so little haha and he took us to the hostel he owned. It was called Ollantaytambu Hostel and he said it had only been open for two months. He was so sincere and kind and honestly really all of the people we interacted with there wer...

We started the Salcantay trek to Machu Picchu on July 28th. We booked it months in advance but realized that we should have waited until we got to Cusco because we paid twice the amount than tour companies were offering within the city. Regardless though this trek was absolutely stunning and worth every arduous step. On day one we left Cusco at around 4:30am and drove to the village of Mollepata. We had breakfast, met our horseman and cook, got acquainted with th...

We arrived in Cusco in the evening on the 20th and we got into a taxi to take us to our hostel. Challenge #1. Our driver drops us off and says our hostel is the door where we were dropped off but it was a closed dentist office. Our driver leaves and we are stuck not knowing where the hell we are. We wander around for about 15 minutes or so and we find a sign with the name of our hostel. So we enter and it leads us down a dark creepy ally. The sign says number 4 ...