Category: South-America
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Day 26 – Day at Sea, Crossing the Equator
We actually crossed over the equator at around 2AM this morning after leaving Manta Ecuador at sunset yesterday, heading for Panama City, Panama. The ship’s traditional King Neptune Ceremony was scheduled at a more convenient time of 11AM today. This ceremony celebrates the equator crossing with King Neptune and his…
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Day 25 – Manta, Ecuador
Manta is a fairly small port and resort city. As has been typical in South American ports, our ship docks in the commercial dockyard, surrounded by commercial ships – fishing, container or auto carriers. As a working dockyard, we have to ride a shuttle bus to the cruise terminal building.…
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Days 23 and 24 – Days at Sea
We left Lima earlier this morning and are at sea the next two days, heading to Manta, Ecuador. These are days of much needed rest and recovery. We had leisurely breakfasts, we saw the ship doctor to follow-up on Laura’s bronchitis recovery and my resurgence of a sinus infection after…
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Day 22 – Cusco and return to Lima
Our group of tour guides were excellent in adjusting to the needs of our traveling group. Our original itinerary had us spending this morning touring historic sites within Cusco, eating lunch and the going to the airport by 1:30PM for our flight back to Lima and re-boarding the ship. There…
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Day 21 – Machu Picchu Pt II
Machu Picchu means “Old Peak”. It is believed to have been a royal estate or sacred religious site for Inca leaders, whose civilization was virtually wiped out by Spanish invaders in the 16th century. For hundreds of years, until the American archaeologist Hiram Bingham stumbled upon it in 1911, the…
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Day 21 – Machu Picchu, Pt I
Woke up in Cusco at 5:45AM to get ready for a long day to and from Machu Picchu. As mentioned earlier, it’s a combination of bus and train segments to reach the Sanctuary, and we won’t return to our hotel until 10:30 PM tonight. Not having much appetite from the…
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