I felt like it had been ages since I posted about what we’ve been up to, so much seems to have happened but actually it’s only been 3 days! Funny how that happens.
As you can imagine Machu Picchu was quite a high point for us, so the following couple of days we spent our time taking life a little slower. We woke up late, caught up on some home schooling, cooked, browsed the markets and just sort of lived life in the city of Cusco. Continue reading
As I type I am sitting in the train station waiting for our Peru rail train back to cusco, after a very exciting, adventurous and dusty couple of days, exploring the hidden lost city of Machu Picchu high in the Andes mountains.
We arrived the day before heading up to Machu Picchu, as everyone here seems to do. The 4 hour train journey from Poray, near Cusco, traveled through the beautiful sacred valley following the rocky river, past corn fields, cattle grazing and small stone Continue reading
After an surprise overnight stay in Lima due to our cancelled flight, we were pleased to get up in the air and on our way to Cusco, the Inca capital! After a couple of bad nights sleep (Limas feria was on!) I could have fallen fast asleep for the hours flight, however the views over the Andes mountains on the early morning flight were so stunning I spent the whole flight looking out the window! Continue reading
Not really worthy of a blog post but today we walked around Barranco where we are staying and I tried to capture some of the amazing colours and street art.
The Barranco area is regarded as a very Peruvian area of the city, made up of charming colonial houses with intricate wooden verandas painted in an array of colours. Continue reading
After a few crazy days, we decided to have a bit of a break today, have a long lay in and take it all a bit slower.
After a very late breakfast of bread and jam, and strong Peruvian coffee we set to some chilled out travel schooling. Continue reading
What a busy day! Today we took an uber ride over to the next district along in Lima, Miraflores. We booked in on a great Peruvian chocolate making class and tour….thought that could be today’s learning! 😂 Continue reading
Today we have been on a fantastic historical walking tour of Lima with a great non profit company called Hakutours.
About 70 percent of the population of Lima live in the shantytown area of Lima and hakutours pours all its money from its local tours into helping people from this low Continue reading
So we have finally arrived in Lima, Peru! Yesterday was a long old day of travel, a 7 hour flight from Los Angeles to Bogota, then a little wait in the Colombian airport for our connecting 3 hour flight on to Lima. We finally made it to our new Airbnb in the Barranco area at 3am local time, so we pretty much crawled into our beds and dropped off to the land of nod! Continue reading
Well I won’t lie, today has been a bit of a roller coaster of emotions! We woke up in gorgeous San Diego and packed up from our lovely Airbnb home to head to our airport hotel in LA ready for our flight to Peru tomorrow! Not sure any of us wanted to leave!!!! Continue reading
We arrived in San Diego yesterday lunchtime and straight away I knew we didn’t have enough time in this lovely city! Bummer! 😕 Mind you I think I could happily stay here for weeks! Pristinely clean leafy streets, modern architecture, sweet family’s playing in the park, and a very relaxed and chilled out vibe! Continue reading
a little time out 