Posts Tagged “south america”

"What's new Buenos Aires? I'm new, I just wanna say I'm a little stuck on you, you'll be on me too..." - From the Broadway musical "Evita" Sometimes, all your travel plans won't go exactly as planned.  Flights may be canceled, delayed, or you'll realize that even with the most detailed planning in your logistics, [...]

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Contrary to popular belief, the city of Cusco lies at a higher elevation point than the peaks of Machu Picchu, prompting the likely possibility of suffering from altitude sickness at a whopping 12,000 feet elevation above sea level.  As a person who didn't get sick on this particular trip, the only advice I can really [...]

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4:45 am.  BEEP. BEEP.  BEEP.  It's morning already?  I splashed cold water on my face and threw on the layers of clothes that I had set out the night before. Layers are important - I'd discover that later.  The rain was already coming down and it was pitch black outside. Machu Picchu Pueblo was eerily [...]

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If you told me a year ago that I would be blessed by a shaman the evening before I would go horseback riding through the Sacred Valley in Peru and then taking a train to Machu Picchu Pueblo, I probably would have said that you were crazy. No.  "Crazy" probably isn't even the right word.  [...]

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