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 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…
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…
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…