Erika was fortunately starting to feel better when we woke up in Ollantaytambo on the day of our train ride up to Aguas Calientes. Which was excellent, as we were a day away from Machu Picchu, long one of the most important points on this trip! Our train was leaving just after noon, so Erika wanted to spend a little time walking around Ollantay in the morning. We headed down the main road, to the entrance to town, where awaited…
“My throat hurts,” Erika said to me Saturday night while we were packing up Franz and Helga for our early morning flight to Cusco, Peru. Thus began nearly a month of Erika dealing with illness in one form or another, and of me exploring Peru on my own for a while. Cusco We landed in Cusco and had to argue with the taxi drivers over rates—amazingly, something we really hadn’t done until now. “Oh, that’s for taxis outside the airport,…
One of the main reasons we wanted to visit Bolivia was to see the Salar de Uyuni, the salt flats. But trying to plan this visit from La Paz was starting to get daunting. The traditional way to see the flats is to take a 3-4 day tour in a 4×4 through the flats, staying in primitive hotels along the way. The reviews of the multitude of tour companies were all mixed. And whereas 80% of the time the trips…
We’d brought Diamox with us on our trip to use if we needed help dealing with altitude sickness. Since Erika had been pretty well bowled over by the altitude in Sucre, she was worried about going to the much higher elevation of La Paz. So the night before we left, she took a Diamox. Big mistake, it turns out. Erika woke up far more spacey and nauseated than when she wasn’t on the Diamox. Not great since we had a…
I brought my DSLR on this trip for a reason, and it wasn’t for all the extra weight. It was to take pretty pictures! Here are some of the pretty pictures we got so far in Cartagena. I hope you enjoy them, keep coming back because we’ll have plenty more! I hope you like wide angle pictures, because to keep weight down I only brought my wide angle lens for this trip, so you’re gonna get a ton of them….
