The Hiram Bingham and Machu Picchu: Part 1

The morning after exploring the Sacred Valley we met our handler for the day, Caesar, in the hotel lobby at 8am. We walked across the street to meet our driver, Victor, and we were off to the train station to catch our train to Machu Picchu, the Hiram Bingham. As I mentioned in my firstContinue reading “The Hiram Bingham and Machu Picchu: Part 1”

Our Amazing Peruvian Adventure: Second Stop, Cusco!

We woke up early in order to meet Anna in the hotel lobby. She would escort us to our airport gate where we would fly from Lima to Cusco. Since it had become clear to Phil and I that our fancy trip was even more fancy than we’d thought it would be (read the prologueContinue reading “Our Amazing Peruvian Adventure: Second Stop, Cusco!”

Our Amazing Peruvian Adventure: First Stop: Lima!

We began our adventure by flying from Raleigh to Miami and onto Lima (read my trip prologue here). We were sent our final itinerary by the Belmond representative weeks earlier, so we knew what we had planned and when. A driver was to meet us at the airport and take us to our first stop;Continue reading “Our Amazing Peruvian Adventure: First Stop: Lima!”