Machu Piccu, Dec 16, 2007

by | Dec 21, 2007 | Travel

We started the day early by catching the train from Cusco to Aguas Calientes, which is the town situated at the base of Machu Piccu. It is a four hours journey with an interesting twist. The train first needs to climb out of the Cusco valley, and intead of running in...

Altitude illness – update

by | Dec 18, 2007 | Travel

I got worse again, and was really really happy to leave Cusco.  As soon as the airplane closed the door and preassurized the cabin the headace went away.   I’ll follow up with more on the Machu Piccu trip later.   Internet connections are getting scarce....

Altitude sickness – yuck!

by | Dec 17, 2007 | Travel

Cusco is situated at around 3,500 m (11,500 feet) and some people who visit suffer from altitude sickness. It shouldnt take much to figure out, given the title of this blog, that it hit, and it hit pretty bad. After about 12 hours in Cusco we both started to get...

In the land of the Incas

by | Dec 16, 2007 | Travel

We started the day at 3:00am (!) to catch the flight from Lima to Cusco. We are now up in the Andes mountain ranga. Peru has many thousand histories to tell about the people who originally lived in Peru and the changes that arrived with the Spaniards in the...