Got an early start to the day with a flight to Santiago Chile. Santiago is a more modern looking city. Here they experience many earth quakes and so there are few buildings surviving from the earliest days. Our hotel is located in the Lastarria area of the city adjacent to a large park. The park …
From what we saw in our day and a half in Lima, there are two parts of the city that were of interest to us. The historic center and the more modern and residential area of Miraflores, where our hotel was for our last night in Peru. In the historic center is the Plaza San …
I know there are certain of our friends and followers who are interested and enamored by great hotels, and the Belmond we stayed at in Cusco was certainly an exceptional hotel. For them I offer the following pictures. We began our day early, as usual to explore some of the important sites in Cusco, the …
High in the Andes of Peru, there is a mysterious city under the shadow of the mountain they call Machu Picchu. No one knows exactly why this ancient city was built here. It is not in a militarily strategic location, nor was there any population centers around it. The latest thinking is that it was …
We are staying in a small town of Urutambo, The hotel is just amazing, I never expected such a lovely and luxurious setting in what I considered a remote place. The Sol & Luna hotel is just fabulous, with two restaurants and individual villas, casitas. This is our base of operations for the next two …
Today we flew from Lima to Cusco. We did not stay in Cusco, driving into the mountains through small little towns. The plan is to stop tomorrow to see some traditional crafts people. I am planning to ask if any might be interested in coming to the US for a month or so to teach …
Today is the start of our journey. Hope you will follow along and share our good times.
