If you are worry-wart please stop reading this post right now. I know you’ll continue anyway, but by doing so you promise not to freak out. Hey you, you know who you are – I said stop!
The bus ride from Arequipa to Cusco is advertised at 10 hours, which should be just enough time to [...]
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We spent the last few days in Arequipa, Peru’s second-largest city. It was a great stopping over point on the way to 3,326 meter (10,912 feet) high Cusco; with its elevation of 2,380 meters (7,800 feet), we could get started on acclimatization. It is extremely dry, and has three volcanoes towering over the [...]
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If you’re not careful, you can end up spending a lot of money on ATM fees, foreign transaction fees, and the like. Getting money from the ATM can add up, with foreign banks charging up to $5 for use of their machines. Credit card transaction fees often total 4% of a purchase (1% by Visa [...]
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My twenty six hours starts mid flight to Lima, Peru at just past midnight on Friday night. Over the previous hour of our flight from Bogota, I’d had a marvelous chat with Deanna, a special education teacher from northern Virginia. Deanna was heading to Lima along with her hair dresser, Erika, and a [...]
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Four idyllic days and nights in Parque Tayrona have left us browner, more relaxed, and with quite a few more bug bites. Parque Tayrona is a Colombian national park on the Caribbean coast with beautiful beaches and lodging in the form of hammocks strung beneath traditional thatched structures. After the hike in through [...]
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