Home from Peru -- Our posts and pictures are below

Got home from Peru on Friday afternoon (Jan. 21st) about 2:30 and staggered in to take a nap about 4 PM and woke up at 4 AM. No permanent scars from the trip and only a short food poisoning episode from the airline food.

For those considering s trip to Peru I would whole-heartedly recommend the travel professionals we used for our trip:

Peru Travel Now ...  http://www.perutravelnow.com/  also known as "Viajes Pacífico" in Peru. They are associated with GrayLine tours somehow. We stayed in Casa Andina hotels in Lima and Cusco. In Aguas Calientes we were upgraded to Inkaterra Machu Picchu Peru Pueblo Hotel  (Travel & Leasure Magazine list this as one of the top three hotels in Peru!). Our airlines were American Airlines, LAN-Peru and Star Peru.

Two long posts follow this one along with many pictures. Posts are in chronological order...you must scroll down to begin the story with the first section (Part One). Part One covers the trip up to the point of our departure from Cusco to Machu Picchu. Part Two covers Machu Picchu and Lima and the trip home.

We have been back a week and we are still a little puzzled about what we saw. The human existence is constrained and defined by our own experiences and Peru and the Incas cause one to call these perceptions into question. It is not just a trip to a different geographic area...we found it to be a journey that expanded our way of thinking in some ways.