Well, we are finally wrapping up our blog series for our Gate 1 Travel 10-Day Classic Peru trip. It’s taken us a while, but we’ve had several other trips, and life as expats in Mexico always keeps us busy. We decided to close out this trip with a good, bad, and ugly blog post. It…
After visiting the Gate 1 Foundation–sponsored school, we continued through the Andean Highlands to Raqchi on our way to Puno and the Uros Islands on Lake Titicaca, South America’s largest freshwater lake. Raqchi Raqchi is home to Wiracocha, a 15th-century temple known for its stonework. It is the largest Inca temple ever discovered….
After leaving Cusco, we had a very, very long seven-hour drive across the Peruvian highlands. As always, there were a few stops along the way. And while we could have easily grouped everything into one blog post, one-stop deserved so much special attention! Gate 1 Foundation Aside from fabulous, well-organized, and value-packed trips, we…
After an exciting but exhausting day exploring Machu Picchu, our group left the PeruRail train in Ollayantambo and boarded our bus again. We made our way out of the Sacred Valley and back to Cusco. Palacio Del Inka Hotel The beautiful Palacio del Inka, part of the Marriott Luxury Collection, would be our home…
Machu Picchu has been on our bucket list for quite some time now, and we finally made it on this trip last November. Initially, Machu Picchu was scheduled as part of the same 10-Day Classic Peru trip with Gate 1 Travel for the fall of 2020 – OBVIOUSLY, that never happened. So, we…
The Sacred Valley was our destination after our Gate 1 Travel group spent the afternoon in Chinchero. We were headed to our hotel near Urubamba for the next two nights. The Sacred Valley got its name from the Incas because of the sacred river that ran through it. The valley is only about a kilometer…
Following breakfast at our hotel in Lima, we departed for the airport for our flight to Cusco. We were there just long enough to board a tour bus for our trip to Urubamba and the Scared Valley. Cusco is slightly over 11,000 feet above sea level, which is quite a change from Lima and our…
Our Gate 1 Travel – 10-Day Peru trip started in the beautiful city of Lima, Peru. As you saw in our previous post, we flew in a day or so early to avoid any flight issues and the chillout, and we’re glad we did. We had a minor flight issue but still had plenty of…
This is a blog post we weren’t sure we’d ever be writing. (No, not because it took forever to finish our last series!) As you might know, we have canceled trips to Peru to visit Machu Picchu twice. The first time was scheduled just when COVID came along. Post covid, we were scheduled again, and…