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Sacred Valley, Peru travel guide – The YEH, MEH, NAHs

May 31, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Guides

If Machu Picchu vanished, retrieved by Incan extra-terrestrials, the Sacred Valley would still be a top Peru destination. We visited in mid-March, at the tail end of Peru’s rainy season. I can’t imagine a better time to visit. The valley…

Looking up inside the train from Machu Picchu photo

Riding the Machu Picchu recovery train

April 26, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Art, Travel Stories

As our Inca Rail train pulls of Machu Picchu town, I realize my hands are…well, they’re not clean. There’s Incan dirt under my nails. Also, my jeans are spattered with mud. My jacket is soaked through with the rain that…

Two through the window, Machu Picchu, Peru photo

If these walls could talk – Machu Picchu photo essay

April 25, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Photo Essays

Before I got to Machu Picchu, Peru, I knew I wanted to keep people out of most of my photos. Including people in travel photos can deliver a sense of scale, time, place, or emotion. But, at a world wonder…

Postcard view of Machu Picchu, Peru photo

The innocents abroad

April 24, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

Unless he was a much better secret keeper than his writings suggest, Mark Twain never tramped through the jungly ruins of Machu Picchu, “discovered” shortly after his death in 1910. Yet, here we are at Machu Picchu and there’s Twain—or…

Falling wall, Machu Picchu, Peru photo

Blue times at Machu Picchu

April 23, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

When your family is going through rough times like mine is, you read into everything each person says, because there’s so much being left unsaid. Shortly before Todd and I left for Peru, I visited my family in New York….

Sketch at Machu Picchu

Sketch at Machu Picchu

April 19, 2012 · by Todd · in Peru, Travel Art

After the intense hike up Huayna Picchu, and the harrowing rain-soaked hike back down, we got a respite of sunshine to sit and rest at Machu Picchu. So I drew it. Looking up toward the temple ruins between the rains…

Llama at Machu Picchu, Peru photo

If you don’t like the weather at Machu Picchu, wait 5 minutes

April 18, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Photo Essays

This is not the view that you want to see when visiting Machu Picchu. Not at all.

Inca Rail train ready to leave for Machu Picchu photo

The train journey to Machu Picchu

April 17, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

Traveling to Peru at the end of the rainy season in March meant that we would be risking some serious damp downsides. Instead of hiking the steep and expensive Inca Trail through a potential mess of mud and mist, we…

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