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Altitude Sickness - Soroche Cusco
28 Reviews This is very real and can be extremely dangerous if you don't take care. Most people will get mild symptoms including breathlesness and tiredness. The first day may also give you a headache and...
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Trail Dangers Machu Picchu
6 Reviews Being so high above the sea level, most visitors suffer the "altitude sickness". In the first 2-3 days you will feel a little headache and some stomach problems. To fight that is advisable to drink...
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Weather Wise Machu Picchu
3 Reviews Visiting Machu Picchu in January, during the rainy season, we'd read to dress warm and expect rain and fog. The day we went it turned out warm, bright and very sunny. I knew about the higher altitude...
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Food / Drink Machu Picchu
6 Reviews Coca tea and chewing coca will help you adjust to altitude sickness. For most, chewing coca will make you a little slap happy. I guess everyone reacts to it differently. I felt my heart racing like I...
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Bathrooms Machu Picchu
4 Reviews Quite simply, there aren't any. You'll quickly lose your inhibitions about relieving yourself in the great outdoors, because you won't really have a choice when necessity calls. The trek group with...
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Timing Machu Picchu
2 Reviews If you want to experience the mysticism of Machu Picchu without distractions, then you better plan to rise bright and early in order to catch a few quiet moments of sanctity and solitude....the tour...
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These Peruvian water wings will not protect you from the untreated sewage that can escape into Titicaca from the opposite side of Puno especially during the rainy season. This is the only person I ever saw swimming in the lake.
The tradition used to be water, but at least in Puno and the lake area, spraying shaving cream was popular during the carnaval parades. It starts out friend on friend, and then spreads as one friend ducks and a bystander is lathered. A safe and clean time was had by all.
At the cheap hotel level in Peru hot water is a problematic adventure. You always need to ask, but still you may be disappointed. The electric power may go out or the gas run out, or even water be disrupted. There may be hot water for the earlier birds but none later. Hotels may have hot water but not when you want or need it just as they may run out of water altogether. Even when there is hot water you may find yourself taking a cold shower. Does "C" stand for cold or caliente? If it stands for caliente what does "H" stand for? And why does it take so long to warmup. Why does the hot water not come on at all? -- look for a second valve. And then there are those head of shower electric water heaters with exposed electric wires. If you are brave enough to step under exposed wires, why is it that the higher you turn on the water the colder it gets but if you do not turn it on enough the...
We strongly recommend you take out comprehensive travel and medical insurance before travelling. Medical treatment can be expensive and not always available in some parts of the country.Malaria is prevalent in northern parts of Peru and in Iquitos (Amazon) particularly, where there is risk of flooding during the Peruvian summer months of November to April. Cases of Dengue fever have also been reported in northern Peru.Movement at altitudes over 9,000 feet (3,000 metres) can be debilitating, particularly upon arrival. Visitors to Cusco and other high altitude areas are therefore advised to take things easy for the first day or two after arrival.
Apres tout ce surf, rien de tel qu une sieste a l ombre de ...... de rien du tout en fait car y a pas d ombre.ecore un coup vive la seche quand il fait presque 40degres dans le hamac...si on met un pantalon et la chemise, c est pour se proteger du soleil et surtout du vent charge de grains de sable....
C est par ou MARAQUECHE WAICH WAICH !Le truc blanc sur mon crane c est une sheshe... Les 2 trucs rouges sous mon short c est mes jambes, avec des supers coups de soleil...Merci Mathieu, je t ecouterai encore quand tu me diras que le desert c est bien mieux en short et en tatanes hehehe...On s est brule de partout et surtout des pied... (sable bouillant a 10h du matin)
Un petit tour dans les dunes. Desert au sud du Perou, proche de la ville d ICA.C est la que l on fait du buggy, et on s eclate comme des petits fous dans la dessente des dunes (les plus hautes du monde) en « snowbord ».
street exchangers usually offers a better rate but they can offer some fraud too...if you know someone local just ask for his usual street changer, if not write down the serial code of the note you're going to change: a common fraud is to switch your good note with a fake one and then refuse it.. in the case don't be afraid to say this is not mine showing him the code of your.
even though US dollars are often used to quote "touristic" stuff as tickets and hotels, I managed twice to travel peru without having a single dollar, withdrawing the soles I needed from ATM machines.A thing to take care of, both speaking about dollars and soles, is to check for integrity of the notes you have or receive: they have to be in pretty good condition or you're bound to have your money refused as fake notes (and coins) are pretty common.if you go out of the tourist path, provide to have small change as a 50 soles note will prove to be quite useless in the countryside as no one will have change. In huaraz, quite a touristy town, the lady of the shop had to go out and look for change for a 10 soles note (the smaller one) in order to give me change for a 2 soles buy.Grifos (petrol stations) usually accept bigger notes but they will not be glad to simply change them being afraid...
it seems that the most common games at night is the the make the one coming towards me BLIND competition.instead of lower lights when they meet someone they light up every single lamp they have. This can make you not to see the hundred sheep walking in your carriage.
7 Reviews and 251 Opinions We did not stay here, but it was pointed out to us as the hotel used for some of the VIPs that came...
Hostal Rumi Punku Cusco
7 Reviews and 486 Opinions Very nice hotel including all amenities, even wi-fi. Recommend the tours booked via Sergio at the...
Sumaq Machu Picchu Hotel Machu Picchu
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Q: We will be traveling in Dec. can only spend about 6 days in Peru. Would appreciate any suggestions on how to best use our time. ...
A: Firstly, if you stay on the coast, be prepared for heat and humidity. If you go inland, be prepared for altitude. I imagine you will be arriving first off in Lima? Six...
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