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Travel Desk / Peru

Cusco, the Sacred Valley, and Machu Picchu

Peru

Blanche researches the altitude, keeps a protocol, follows it, and still finds the altitude humbling in a way she considers character building. Machu Picchu gives her a quality of silence she has not met anywhere else. Hazel evaluates the coca tea on pharmacological grounds before drinking it, finds the alkaloid content defensible for altitude, and says so with complete seriousness.

Coming soon
Hotels and Stays
  • Belmond Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge, the most extraordinarily located hotel Book →
  • Belmond Palacio Nazarenas, in Cusco Book →
Experiences
  • The altitude arc
  • The coca tea evaluation
  • The Machu Picchu silence Book →
  • The Belmond Hiram Bingham train
  • The Cusco market Book →
Restaurants and Cafes
  • Lima, one of the great food scenes in the world Book →
  • Pisco, on production quality
  • Ceviche
Planning
  • LATAM business class from a US hub, then the train to Aguas Calientes

This hub opens lightly and fills over time.