Author Archives: Amelia Wiggins

Up early again for the day tour to Rainbow Moutnain! Wooohoo! Julia also reserved a spot for today with MPR, but as luck would have it, we were placed into 2 separate groups. Oh, well. It seemed strange we couldn’t switch around, but the guide didn’t seem to want us to. No worries, we’ll catchContinue reading “Rainbow Mountain 🌈”

April 17th: Day after Salkantay Today is all about relaxing, haha. I woke up and had breakfast at my hostel, which was way more than I had imagined. There was a small buffet table with fruits, bread, some cheese and deli meat, along with coffee and tea. I thought that was plenty, but THEN, aContinue reading “Around Cusco”

The next morning, we woke up before dawn to have breakfast at 4:30AM. It was a surprisingly solid meal including some eggs! … Which had become a rare delicacy the last few days; so many of our breakfasts were sugary and carb heavy, and not surprising since we needed the fuel to hike, but havingContinue reading “Machu Picchu”

Day 3 starts with more coca tea at our little huts… a girl could get used to this type of service! Lol. Fortunately, this campsite was very small, and our dining area was not up a large hill, hehe. After another wonderful breakfast, we began hiking. The tricky part of today would be crossing landslides.Continue reading “Salkantay Part 2”

Day 4: Salkantay Begins! Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!! It’s finally here, the biggest highlight of my trip to Peru—The Salkantay Trek! 5 days of hiking, reaching an elevation of about 15,190 feet/4,630 meters, and ending with a journey to Machu Picchu! I am so thrilled to be doing this, although there is aContinue reading “Salkantay Trek”

Day 3: Saqsaywaman, Q’enco, Temple of the Moon I woke up at 6 today in order to make it to Saqsaywaman when it opened at 7. It was supposedly a 40-minute walk, but it felt like forever, and it probably took me closer to an hour, hehe. I began my journey and quickly realized IContinue reading “Around Cusco”

6:00 AM wake-up time for the all-day tour into the Sacred Valley! There are 5 major points of interest we’re about to tackle in a day’s work. Herrrrrreeee we go! Haha Stop 1: Chinchero Inhabited since before the Inca, but made famous by the Inca king Túpac Yupanqui, who decided to construct his home inContinue reading “Sacred Valley Tour”

I am so excited to be back traveling, and this time, the chosen place is Peru 🇵🇪! I’ll be doing the typical attractions, and my highlight will be the Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu! I’ve given myself 3 days in Cusco to acclimate to the altitude, so hopefully I’ll be ready to face the challengesContinue reading “Peru Adventure Time!”

Day 7:  Today we’d be embracing yet another difficult hike…much less than Haleakalā, but a challenging, steep, 2-mile uphill incline. Hehe. But, before we do much, we stop by Maui Coffee Roasters for some coffee and some breakfast. We’ll need our energy for the Waihe’e Ridge hike. This hike boasts magical views of the ’ĪaoContinue reading “We’ll miss you, Maui!”

Day 4: Slow morning for Amelia today…I think I’m still on East Coast time, waking up pretty early, hehe. I played around on my phone for a while, read a little in a book I bought about Hawaii, and was about to start catching up on Netflix shows when Tony began to stir.  We hadContinue reading “Haleakalā”