How much can you see and do and eat in a mere three days in Peru, including a visit to Machu Picchu? A lot, it turns out. But the thing that finally made me put my credit card down on the trip was all the comments I was hearing about Peruvian food. It turns out the people were right: Peruvian food is hard to beat.
Whether I'm flying confirmed or standby, I've always had this affinity and knack for packing in as much as possible into , , and hour trips. By the time my boyfriend and I had landed and gotten through customs, it was a.
We had dinner and stayed the night at Andino Hotel MachuPicchu before our early morning bus ride to the ruins. We spent the majority of our day at Machu Picchu more on that below before getting on the train back to Ollantaytambo and driving back to Cusco, where we had dinner and stayed another night at El Puma Hotel.
Mind you, this was all included in the tour: airport transfers, private drivers, train and bus tickets, Machu Picchu tickets and guided tour, and hotels. The next day we made our way back to Cusco airport for an early flight to Lima, where we spent Monday and Tuesday before taking the midnight flight back to Fort Lauderdale. We had two full days and one night at Country Club Lima Hotel in the San Isidro neighborhood, an excellent stay and a great escape from the hustle and bustle of the city.
The journey to Machu Picchu does start in the Sacred Valley. I would not have seen traditional pottery methods, nor how another co-op has come together to use it to build houses. I would not have eaten the delicious farm-to-table meal at the Parwa Community Restaurant. But on to Machu Picchu.
