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…
Category: Puno
Raqchi, Puno and The Uros Islands
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….
Peru, FINALLY!
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…



