We were blessed with a full view of the usually cloudy Arenal Volcano on the way into its closest town, La Fortuna.  A few clouds had formed by…

  We arrived at Manuel Antonio, the town attached to the National Park of the same name, after another bad taxi experience in San José.  We had to pass through, since…

  White sand, coconut trees lining the beach and reefs near shore? Sounded good to us.  The small beach town of Cahuita is on Costa Rica´s Caribbean Coast, about 4…

  San José, Costa Rica From the moment we landed, we felt like we were almost home.  Over the years I´d heard so many wonderful things about Costa Rica as…

Concentric Circle Ruins at Moray The concentric circles at Moray were different from anything we´d seen so far. The most widely-accepted theory is that these terraced circles were used as…

While Cuzco is an amazing city to explore, there’s so much more to see once you get out of town. Surrounded by the Andes, Cuzco was the heart of the…

The train ride from Ollantaytambo to Aguas Calientes (aka Machu Picchu Pueblo) was like entering the jungle.  Everything got more and more lush, green and wet.  There was less agriculture,…

The Road to Ollantaytambo Having left Pisac late in the afternoon after a LONG walk up and through the ruins, we were pretty tired by the time we changed buses in the…

To travel to Pisac from Cusco is about an hour by local bus, 2.40 soles about 70 cents US.  We sat next to two women who were having a conversation…

Cuzco History Heart of the ancient Inca empire, Cuzco is located in the heart of the Andes at about 11,000 feet.  We’d recently been in Puno, and this was a…