Introduction

This is a blog created to share our experiences, notes and photos from our trip to the Andes. The planned tour: starts in Arequipa; we then continue by land to the Colca valley and canyon (deepest in the world) where we hope to see condors; we then continue by land to Puno where we will stay at the El Libertador hotel on Lake Titicaca (the hotel is built 1/2 mile into the lake and the lake is the highest navigable lake in the world); we then move on to Cuzco also by land an on to the Ollantaytambo in the Sacred Valley to take the train to Machu Picchu. We will spend the night at Aguas Calientes at the bottom of the Machu Picchu hill and we hope to get up early to see the ruins at sunrise; we will then come back to Ollantaytambo and stay one night at the Sacred Valley and tour the valley the next day; we will then come back to Cuzco and enjoy it for a couple of days; finally, we fly back to lima where we will be treating ourselves to awesome peruvian cuisine and pisco sours.