Moche Temples – Las Huacas del Sol y de la Luna
While Southern Peru is famous for its Inca ruins, Northern Peru is home to much older ancient ruins… Just a…
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Ancient Ruins
The ancient city of Caral
The main (only) reason to go to Barranca, is to visit the ancient city of Caral on a day trip….
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Flying over the Nasca lines
There’s only one reason to go to Nasca (in our opinion…) – and that is to take a flight over…
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Climbing Machu Picchu Mountain
In addition to completing the ‘normal’ lap of Machu Picchu, we had purchased tickets that allowed us to also climb…
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Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu – the most famous set of Inca ruins in the whole of Peru, AND probably the most visited…
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Moray, Maras, and the Salineras
Continuing our conquest of ancient ruins, it was time to visit the Inca ruins of Moray. This site is a…
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Estamos en Ollantaytambo
Ollantaytambo – a small village in the Sacred Valley – was our next stop… This small village was actually an…
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Pisac ruins
Continuing with the theme of visiting ancient ruins (the main tourist activity in Peru) – our next day out was…
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Pikillaqta ruins
Pikillaqta was our first day trip by bus out of Cusco, and although Cusco and the sacred valley are famous for…
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