Hello all,
Couple of questions, if you don’t mind …
Wife and I are on an exploratory / holiday trip, just spent 2 months bumbling around Ecuador, and are coming to Peru very soon. We arrive in Lima soon, but are surprised by the amount of cautionary info on Lonely Planet and a few other sites. Petty crime is known and everywhere (even where we’re at now) but is it blown out of proportion?
While here, we would like to see Machu Pichu and surrounding, but also getting conflicting info re: entrance availability, additional req’d passes (Boleto Turistico) and mandatory guides to enter. If anyone could please provide some clarifying feedback, it would be very much appreciated. There is a government website documenting maximum visitors (I’ve heard 2500/day – Yikes!), and the caledar shows that many on all days out to AUG ’17, except around the holidays. My hope is we get to Cuzco, find a local agency, and enjoy while most sane folk are having Christmas festivities. We would also like to see the sacred valley and Cuzco around this adventure.
Hope is to then bus to Puno, see Lago T … and then unwind on coast somewhere.
Sorry, this feels sort of rambling, but we’re ticketed to Lima, have a big wish list, and need some local info.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Mark
Couple of questions, if you don’t mind …
Wife and I are on an exploratory / holiday trip, just spent 2 months bumbling around Ecuador, and are coming to Peru very soon. We arrive in Lima soon, but are surprised by the amount of cautionary info on Lonely Planet and a few other sites. Petty crime is known and everywhere (even where we’re at now) but is it blown out of proportion?
While here, we would like to see Machu Pichu and surrounding, but also getting conflicting info re: entrance availability, additional req’d passes (Boleto Turistico) and mandatory guides to enter. If anyone could please provide some clarifying feedback, it would be very much appreciated. There is a government website documenting maximum visitors (I’ve heard 2500/day – Yikes!), and the caledar shows that many on all days out to AUG ’17, except around the holidays. My hope is we get to Cuzco, find a local agency, and enjoy while most sane folk are having Christmas festivities. We would also like to see the sacred valley and Cuzco around this adventure.
Hope is to then bus to Puno, see Lago T … and then unwind on coast somewhere.
Sorry, this feels sort of rambling, but we’re ticketed to Lima, have a big wish list, and need some local info.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Mark
