by Håkan Söderbom | Dec 21, 2007 | Travel
The only reason we returned to Lima was that we couldnt get a flight out to Santiago the same day. This time we stayed in Miraflores, considered to be the better part of town. I think I can agree it is better than the colonial district, however it is still noisy,...
by Håkan Söderbom | 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...
by Håkan Söderbom | 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....
by Håkan Söderbom | 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...
by Håkan Söderbom | 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...
by Håkan Söderbom | Dec 14, 2007 | Travel
This morning Kay and I reached Lima, Peru. We came the long way from Seattle via New York with American Airlines. Though this was a long detour it was by far the cheapest alternative at this time. We made the most of it by extending the NY transit to 5 hours, and...
