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Peru 1 - Getting to Cusco
Hi again. If I recall correctly, the last time I updated was whilst we were waiting in the VIP lounge in Guaquil, Ecuador for our flight to Lima and on to Cusco.
Well, we duly boarded the flight to Lima, had champagne served us before take-off, whilst the cattle-class passengers filed passed us, and looked on in envy at our fully reclining seats, and more than enough legroom for little me to lie on the floor and not even touch the back of the seat in front! Oh what luxury!
Sadly the flight was only 110 minutes, then we landed in Lima. After a very short wait ( we were off-loaded first from the plane), we picked up our back-packs, and headed through customs control.
Like Mexico, this entailed me pressing a button on a post and waiting 4 seconds to see if the light turned red or green. Red means that your bags are searched, green means off you go.
Incredibly, the light god decided that we weren´t carrying contraband of any kind and turned green. We were through!
We picked a taxi for the short ride to our hotel, and we were in our room 35 minutes after landing! Can´t be bad.
we had a quick snack, and headed off to bed, as we had to be up early next morning to catch our connection to Cusco - an internal flight, barely an hour away.
After an interminable wait at the airport, we boarded and headed south. The weather was warm and sunny, with no cloud cover, so we had a series of gloriuos views of the Andes.
Unilke Ecuador, Peru is much drier and so the landscape is much less green. It i also more barren that Ecuador, with a lot less in the way of cultivated land. The Andes here are also much higher, so there isn´t much in the way of moutain top villages.
As we descended for landing, the mountains grew ever larger out of the windows, until eventually we were flying between the mountains, turning left and right with the twists and turns of the valley.
A steep left bank brought us around a tall mountain, and onto our final approach.
We landed at the small airport of Cusco, with it´s single runway, and short taxi-ways, looking much like Luton airport did 30 years ago, when the kids were young.
Not having a hotel booked in advance, we approached one of the many agents operating just inside the terminalm shack, and, after being told about several hotels, we opted for the Cusco Imperial Hotel. this hotel is a bit more expensive that those which we had stayed in whilst in Ecuador (US$70 a night, or 35 quid) but is proving to be excellent value.
Peru is markedly more expensive than Ecuador anyway, and we had decided that at least for time being, we should have some comforts, including a hairdryer for Lynn.
We were at the hotel in short time, and soon we were ensconced in our room, having a couple of hours sleep.
We had arranged to meet our tour operator, Veronica, the following morning (Tuesday) to decide which tours we were going to take.
The next instalment will reveal what happened when we visited the local Inca sites, and our meeting with tour guide ´Jenni´, aka ´Stalin´!
Well, we duly boarded the flight to Lima, had champagne served us before take-off, whilst the cattle-class passengers filed passed us, and looked on in envy at our fully reclining seats, and more than enough legroom for little me to lie on the floor and not even touch the back of the seat in front! Oh what luxury!
Sadly the flight was only 110 minutes, then we landed in Lima. After a very short wait ( we were off-loaded first from the plane), we picked up our back-packs, and headed through customs control.
Like Mexico, this entailed me pressing a button on a post and waiting 4 seconds to see if the light turned red or green. Red means that your bags are searched, green means off you go.
Incredibly, the light god decided that we weren´t carrying contraband of any kind and turned green. We were through!
We picked a taxi for the short ride to our hotel, and we were in our room 35 minutes after landing! Can´t be bad.
we had a quick snack, and headed off to bed, as we had to be up early next morning to catch our connection to Cusco - an internal flight, barely an hour away.
After an interminable wait at the airport, we boarded and headed south. The weather was warm and sunny, with no cloud cover, so we had a series of gloriuos views of the Andes.
Unilke Ecuador, Peru is much drier and so the landscape is much less green. It i also more barren that Ecuador, with a lot less in the way of cultivated land. The Andes here are also much higher, so there isn´t much in the way of moutain top villages.
As we descended for landing, the mountains grew ever larger out of the windows, until eventually we were flying between the mountains, turning left and right with the twists and turns of the valley.
A steep left bank brought us around a tall mountain, and onto our final approach.
We landed at the small airport of Cusco, with it´s single runway, and short taxi-ways, looking much like Luton airport did 30 years ago, when the kids were young.
Not having a hotel booked in advance, we approached one of the many agents operating just inside the terminalm shack, and, after being told about several hotels, we opted for the Cusco Imperial Hotel. this hotel is a bit more expensive that those which we had stayed in whilst in Ecuador (US$70 a night, or 35 quid) but is proving to be excellent value.
Peru is markedly more expensive than Ecuador anyway, and we had decided that at least for time being, we should have some comforts, including a hairdryer for Lynn.
We were at the hotel in short time, and soon we were ensconced in our room, having a couple of hours sleep.
We had arranged to meet our tour operator, Veronica, the following morning (Tuesday) to decide which tours we were going to take.
The next instalment will reveal what happened when we visited the local Inca sites, and our meeting with tour guide ´Jenni´, aka ´Stalin´!
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