Have you ever noticed that the travel at the front of a vacation is a lot more tolerable than the return travel at the end? Our return home was 2 long grueling days with no sleep.
Find out what happened when I finally got home, after the cut.

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At this point in the trip, my enthusiasm for travel journalling waned, and I was really missing my boyfriend and cat fiercely. But this day was the last highlight of the trip. I did my best to enjoy it, and I will do my best to recount it because this area of Peru is a lot less travelled. Even our Peru tourbook was disappointingly slim on this ( Read more... )

Landcruise from Cusco to Puno, on the shores of Lake Titicaca ( Read more... )

Rest, Relaxation and Recovery ( Read more... )

Machu Picchu day and my 28th birthday ( Read more... )

This was the day I lost track of what day it was.
We walk a loooooooooooooooooooong way, and see many ruins, after the cut.
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Roosters woke us at dawn with cock calls, and chickens and chicks were foraging in the lawn right outside our tents ( Read more... )

We asked for a 5am wakeup call. Although, since there were no phones in the rooms, it was more of a wake up knock at the door. The hotel started serving breakfast at 5:30 for the people with early tours. We filled the camelbacks in our packs. (we each had 3 liter camels) This made a HUGE difference in the weight of the pack, now it feels super ( Read more... )

Today's bus tour started where we left off yesterday on the road that follows the Inca trail. We drove past all yesterday's sights and into the Sacred Valley, so called because of its fertility. The Incan culture and empire revolved around food and food production to a high degree, and they cultivated the floor and sides of the valley into " ( Read more... )

We were expecting a driver to arrive at 7am to take us to the airport so I asked for a wakeup call at 6am. There were no clocks in the room. We were laying awake when the clerk called to tell us our car was already there. I turned on my phone to check the time: 6:50 ( Read more... )