Sharry Miller

Peru - Salkantay Trek, Day 1

Travel with curiosity: It is not how far you go, but how deeply you go that mines the gold of experience. Thoreau wrote a big book about tiny Walden Pond. October 8, 2013 Finally, we got to start hiking! First, however, we had to travel to our starting point via more ruins and a bug-infested coffee stop. Before that, we met Helen, the second Mountain Lodges of Peru guide who would be with us for... Read more →

Peru - Pisaq, Ollantaytambo

Travel hopefully: "To travel hopefully," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson, "is better than to arrive." October 7, 2013 Another day of being tourists in order to continue acclimating to the altitude. I was beginning to get impatient to get started with the Salkantay Trail trek, but curiosity and fascination with the area kept me satisfied for another day. It didn't hurt that every site we visited required climbing up, up, up so I felt like I... Read more →