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Experience Blog #3: The Stars are Upside Down (or maybe right side up)

In the past week or so, I have now traveled from Cusco to Pisac. To be completely honest, I have been missing the liveliness of Cusco… but being surrounded by the magnificence of the mountains, trees, and landscape has left more quiet time for reflection. Last week, I visited Sacsayhuamán an additional time after our […]

Ribs and other emotions

I am a Lorde girl at heart. And in my head too I guess because she plays constantly as the soundtrack for this trip at all times. All my favourite moments relate to a Lorde song. Lorde is for the people who feel bittersweet about experiencing a great moment because they already feel loss knowing it will end.

Journey to Moray

Yesterday we went on a full-day journey from Pisac, to Chinchero, to Moray, to the Maras salt mines. This journey was far longer than any of us expected, I suspect it was far longer than our drivers expected as well, bless their souls (rest assured they were tipped well). I went into this whole thing blind, in the sense that I did not look into any of these sites in any real detail. I more or less learned what each site was when I arrived. Moray was the most fascinating…read more

New Age Tourism and ‘Authenticity’

Experience Blog 3

(experience blog 3)

Pisac is such a cute little place. It is a lot quieter than Cusco and has more of a laid back presence where Cusco seemed busier with more people and more events happening. In Pisac the restaurants close at 8:30 or earlier and everything quiets down. In Cusco most places are open to 11 or […]

Experience Blog 3

Capitalism can be cool

Experience Blog 3: Pisac, Ruins and Value

Hello everyone, I can’t believe that this is already my third experience blog, this time from Pisac! It’s incredible how quickly this trip has been going by. Unfortunately, my memory does not always serve me well, but I’ll do my best to sum up the days I can remember. Thursday was the day we left […]