Cusco

[Psychman]

Can anyone give me a good monger freindly hotel, that is on the inexpensive side (say, 30bucks or under).

Any updates on MPs?

[Member #3437]

apparently the women in Cusco are free...just buy them a drink,dance with them and an hour later tell them you are going and ask them along.


ps...don´t tell anyone.

[Doc Bill]

You got it Polvo!

[Polvo]

...Go ahead, bust my balls, I should have listened to you.......I´d spend a couple of more days in Cuzco so I could relax a bit and take a slower pace.....Besides, I wanted to do it the wrong way as a personal sacrifice to this forum, to set an example and help others on the board who might have been considering doing it my way too, so that those who come after me can learn from my mistakes and not make them themselves.

Arequipa is also recommended but time is your enemy on this!! If you sink 5 days in Cusco, 7 days in Lima, 5 days in Iquitos - you can see the issue!!

Doc:
There are some who would say, "why make mistakes when you were carefully guided". Me, I'll accept a beer from you next week!! LOL

Suerte!

Polvo

[Steve 99]

Hey Steve - Thanks for the detailed report. My question - I have heard that you need reservations and tickets in advance to visit Machu Pichu. You report sounds like you can just folow your advice and do it "spur of the moment". Do you need advance reservations for the visit? Thanks.

YES!! The train is where you need reservations. I highly recommend wherever you stay to have your hotel get the train tickets. You pay a surcharge but it is small.

If you go my route and stay at Aguis Calente first night you need to have the hotel get your train ticket and arrange your taxi. That way when you get off the plaine the cab is there to take you to Ollyanta and also has the train ticket.

You cannot wing it with the train. They are full from what I saw. Now if it was off season maybe yes but I wouldn't risk it.

[Doc Bill]

Hey Steve,

Go ahead, bust my balls, I should have listened to you. I just had already had the hotel reserved and I thought, wrongly, that how big a deal can the train ride be? And as I said I had things planned too tightly and with early morning rises so I wasn´t into experimenting at night with some of the places you suggested. If I had it to do over again, and I will, I´d spend a couple of more days in Cuzco so I could relax a bit and take a slower pace.

Besides, I wanted to do it the wrong way as a personal sacrifice to this forum, to set an example and help others on the board who might have been considering doing it my way too, so that those who come after me can learn from my mistakes and not make them themselves.

[Clodbuster]

I will run down my attack on Machu Pichu for you guys. This may help some of you plan this part of a Peru trip. I got this plan from the loveme site that hooks up guys with chicas for big bucks. True love yea right.
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Hey Steve - Thanks for the detailed report. My question - I have heard that you need reservations and tickets in advance to visit Machu Pichu. You report sounds like you can just folow your advice and do it "spur of the moment". Do you need advance reservations for the visit? Thanks.

[Steve 99]

Hey Doc:

Not to bust you balls.

But did you read my post below???? I laid it all out for you. Oh well... Maybe you didn't read it in time.

I barely got my chica into my hotel. They do look down on it. I had to pay extra for her. There are a lot of chicas for the taking in the strip clubs.

And I can feel your pain on the train ride. I was only on it an hour and a half each way and that was PLENTY...

[Doc Bill]

But not really. This is a very conservative town. I toured the central plaza numerous times at night and the few times I saw a girl alone that I thought might be working she wouldn´t look at me. And I may not be Robert Redford but I ain´t ugly! I went to Mama Africas, some girls in there, but again no looks, it was as if I was invisible. I´m 50 and most people there were much younger, so that may have had something to do with it. Nice club, though, and great music.

I got some other options from you guys, which I appreciate, but I wasn´t willing to do the work for it. I had a whirlwind schedule and between that and the altitude I was in no mood to go out seriously exploring at night. Plus the hotels very strongly discourage guests. There are no love motels that I could find, and the massage parlors are really just that - no happy endings either.

Now read how I did Cuzco and Machu Picchu and do it any other way than mine. Mine was so wrong.

Fortunately the altitude didn´t bother me much. I got some pills in Lima called Acetazolamida (250 mg, one a day), and either they worked well or I´m just not prone to altitude sickness. I hit the ground running an hour after I got there with a city tour, then an all day (read: starts at 7am) tour of ruins the next day, then after 4 hours of sleep Machu Picchu the following and final day.

I didn´t get much out of MP, but it might have been different if I didn´t spend nine hours on buses and trains having to listen to¨"El Condor Pasa" over and over again, for a tour that lasted just shy of 3 hours. If I ever hear that song again I´m gonna rip someone´s eyes out, I swear.

So if you´re going to see Machu Picchu, go spend the night before at Aguas Calientes, get up in the morning, take a 20 minute bus ride to the site and enjoy it all day. It really is incredible, I just wasn´t in the space to really appreciate it.

I´m straying from the purpose of this forum so PM me if you want any more information on this.

Lots of tourists, lots of families. But a mongering town Cuzco is not.

[Doc Bill]

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[Member #3437]

heading to Cusco Monday. Anyone in Lima interested, or anyone else already going to be there let me know

[ChicagoDancer]

Hi AA:

Sorry I could not finish all my questions. (There was a power failure in my area).

How many days/nights are sufficient to have some idea about the area?

Can you recommand any guest friendly hotel?

It is likely that there will be world cup 2010 qualifing game in Cuzco (Peru X Brazil) on November 17. How can I get two tickets for the game?

Any advice will be much appreciated.

Aurab

Bro! All those questions are in the forum and EVEN google. You should really search around some.

Those are basic traveling questions.

[Steve 99]

I will run down my attack on Machu Pichu for you guys. This may help some of you plan this part of a Peru trip. I got this plan from the loveme site that hooks up guys with chicas for big bucks. True love yea right.

Now this is a good itinerary if you want to climb Huyna Pichu which is the big mountain overlooking Machu Pichu. It also gives you more time at Machu Pichu before all the hordes of Japanese Tourists with their stupid cameras show up. It saves you from 4 grueling hours on the train in the morning and then 4 grueling hours on the train at night. That is 8 hours on a fricking train. No thanks.

What you are going to do is stay at Aguis Calenente the first night. This is the village below Machu Pichu. I stayed at Gringo Bills which is kinda expensive at $75 USD bucks but is cool built into the mountain. So you fly into Cusco from Lima in the morning. Then you take a cab from Cusco to Ollyanta. This is the last stop on the train before it goes onto to Ague Calentes. The train you want to get is the 2:55 pm train. The cab ride is about an hour and a half but is cool scenery going through the Sacred Valley. I paid $30 USD for this ride but you can get it cheaper. Gringo Bills can set it up for you. Also you need to get your train ticket through the hotel so the cab driver will have the ticket for you.

Aguis Calente is gringo village with a bunch of hotels. There is no P4P as far as I could see. The pool hall has a cute girl working their. Didn’t try anything with her. So you can wake up as early as you want and take the buses up to Machu Pichu and have the whole place for a few hours before the hordes of tourists show. I headed right to Huyna Pichu and climbed the sucker. It is steep and you will be panting. The view at top was disappointing because of fog. What can you do.

Machu Pichu itself really doesn’t do much for me. Just didn’t feel the seven wonders of the world vibe. But the scenery is awesome. A day is enough at MP. You will be bored by 2 pm.

Then you take the train back to Ollyanta and take cab into Cusco and stay the night in Cusco and get a headache from the high altitude. I stayed 2 nights in Cusco which was about right. I planned on 1 but extended it to 2.

I like Cusco. It is a cool place. Lima is so foggy and cold. Cusco you actually see the sun and feel warm. Mongering in Cusco:

Only mongered 1 night. Met a German girl at the Irish Pub. Didn’t have the patience for a non-pro so moved on. Mongering spoils you—not good.

Hit Nikko Club – No good. All fat and old.

Cassananova Club – Now I couldn’t believe the talent in here. Some real hot girls. It is expensive though at $100 US for takeout plus a salida of something. But talent was there. Screen for BBBJ because I got quoted CBJ from a looker. Then I passed. Move quick on your target here because they get swooped up for hours just drinking with guys who aren’t going to pull them.

Decameron Club. Mostly plain girls. I found a nugget here who turned out awesome. Spinner who was great in bed. I paid 200 soles plus a salida of something. It is a blur.

I also took the city tour that starts at 2. I enjoyed this meeting fellow gringos and seeing Cusco from above the city. Again the ruins will bore you but scenery awesome.

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[Aurab]

Hi AA:

Sorry I could not finish all my questions. (There was a power failure in my area).

How many days/nights are sufficient to have some idea about the area?

Can you recommand any guest friendly hotel?

It is likely that there will be world cup 2010 qualifing game in Cuzco (Peru X Brazil) on November 17. How can I get two tickets for the game?

Any advice will be much appreciated.

Aurab

[Aurab]

Hi AA:

I need some advice. I am planning to visit Cuzco and Machu Pichu during second week of November, probably November 14. My questions are:

What is the best way of travelling to Cuzco from Lima?