Travelogues Cusco

For a few days, we are drawn back to the Andes and we start on the Salkantay Trail, which is supposed to lead us from a small village near Cusco to Machu Picchu in a few days....

Finally he had come: the long-awaited day on which we would go to Machu Picchu, one of the absolute top highlights of the entire continent. Since Jörg had been here before, his...

Since my flight arrives at night, I take it easy when I arrive in Lima. I stroll along the promenade of the very modern and beautiful district of Miraflores and browse through...

Today we start the third day of the Inca Trail and after yesterday it can only get easier - a rest day. Before breakfast we see the Pumasillo mountain illuminated by the morning...

Finally, the Inca Trail begins! As many of you probably know, I booked this event back in October 2022. I know, it was a bit excessive, but you don't need to tell me that. Since...

Hello everyone... the Inca Trail. Fascinating and hell at the same time. The first day started at 4:00 in the morning. Even though I was supposed to be picked up, I still had to...

During our time in Cusco, we took a short trip to Aguas Calientes for 2 nights to visit the famous World Heritage Site Machu Picchu. In our opinion, Machu Picchu deserves its...

The view from the hostel

Plaza de Armas

The original reason for our trip to Peru was that I had read a blog article about a multi-day trek through the Andes to Machu Picchu and it was clear: we wanted to do that too....

Why did the Inca Empire fall? The llamas looted the granary.

After arriving in Santa Teresa, we took a collectivo taxi towards the evening to the thermal baths there, which (very likely rightly so) enjoy a much better reputation than the...

Just traveling for a day trip to Machu Picchu was not an option for us, and the traditional 4-day Inca Trail had to be booked months in advance. So we decided to do the 5-day...

05.07.: manuela, max and oliver, the family from Switzerland, have also booked the tour, so we can share a taxi into the city in the morning.at plaza de arma, we are picked up...

After hearing from so many people who did the Jungle Trek to Machu Picchu, with rafting and ziplining, etc. - we wanted to do it too. So after 1.5 days in Cusco (which we spent...

A small insight into our expedition to Machu Picchu has already been given. But there is much more to say about Cusco. A beautiful colonial city located in the Andes Highlands...

Due to Max's cold and my knee problems, we unfortunately had to realize that the Salkantay trek was not going to happen. So we looked for an alternative because we already had...

there is no other solution, we have to come up here" repeat. Yes, exactly, and after this extreme jungle diving, we come directly to the Inca Trail. We can't go this way because...

Finally, the time has come: We are doing the Inca Jungle Trail: a 4-day tour to Machu Picchu. The day before, José, our tour guide for the next few days, gives us a briefing. No...

Arrived in Cusco, the first thing I had to do was attend a briefing for my hike to Machu Picchu, which lasted 2 days. When I saw the plan, I wasn't so sure anymore if I really...

We practically visited Cusco twice. Once before and once after the Salkantay Trek. The city has something very special about it: it manages to balance modernity and tradition,...

There are different ways to explore regions, for example, through literature, history, or personal contact with the people. Another possibility is geographical exploration, by...

The days in Cusco were for us - like for almost all other tourists there - the starting point for visiting the biggest tourist highlight in Peru, Machu Picchu. For this, we...

Closed roads, cold, sleet, wet tent, snowstorm, sunshine, glaciers, broken tent pole, snow on the tent, lagoons, red mountains, altitude sickness, alpaca poop, Rainbow...

After three days of the Lares Trek, it was now time for us to continue with the two-day Inca Trail, which actually takes 4 days, but for us, only the last and most beautiful...

Day 1: On the first day, we were picked up by the shuttle bus at 5 am. We left our backpacks at the hostel because we could only bring 5kg per person. Then we drove for 2 hours...

After we had befriended Aguas Calientes, the big day had finally arrived, originally almost the main motive of this trip: the legendary sacred Inca city Machu Picchu. The...

Some of the highlights are planned here. From here, we will go to the Sacred Valley.

Our highlight of the 4-day tour was definitely Machu Picchu on the last day. First, we hiked about 3 hours from Hidraelectrica to Aguas Calientes - an absolute tourist town,...

After the first beautiful days in Cusco and our ongoing planning preparations for the Salkantay Trek to the most famous Inca monument in history, Machu Picchu, we decide to...