Pirwa Travel

Buying Your Entrance Ticket for Machu Picchu

August 8, 2015 Pirwa

Tickets for Machu Picchu Citadel are limited to 2,500 visitors daily. Like the limits imposed on the Inca Trail, it´s meant to protect an irreplaceable world heritage site in danger of degrading due to excessive tourist traffic. Outside of the June-July-August high season, it usually isn’t difficult to get a ticket for your desired date during the same week. If your desired date is inflexible, however, or if you’d like your ticket to include a hike up Huayna Picchu or Machu Picchu Mountain, it’s wise to arrange your trip to Machu Picchu in advance. After the jump, we explain how to buy your entry tickets to Machu Picchu Citadel, and what add-on hikes are available:

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Pirwa Travel Guide: Discover the Surreal Beauty of Uyuni Salar

August 5, 2015 Pirwa

One of the most striking geological wonders Bolivia offers is the Uyuni Salt Flats. This child of prehistoric lakes, with its peaks of ancient submerged volcanoes referred to as ‘islands’ and carved by erosion into a delicate filigree, its brine lake under a salt crust, picturesque lagoons where flamingos breed, and giant cacti, deserves a spot on the list. During the rainy season, a light layer of water converts it into a giant mirror, and it’s expanse and flatness makes it more preferable for calibrating satellites than the oceans. Multi-day tours of Uyuni don’t only include the world’s largest salt flats themselves, but also the surreal surrounding landscape, marked by gigantic cacti, red and green lagoons, feeding flamingos, ‘islands’ of prehistoric coral, shooting geysers, hotels made entirely of salt, and bizarre eroded rock structures.

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Celebrations for St Rose This August in Lima, Peru

August 3, 2015 Pirwa

On August 30th, Peru celebrates a national holiday honoring St Rose, the Americas’ first saint. Even if you’re not Catholic, you’ll find plenty of entertainment- like most of the other religious festivals of Peru, the festivities include drinking, feasting, and dancing, with street vendors bustling about adding color and excitement to the proceedings. Thousands of celebrants will gather along the main streets of Lima to watch processions of the saint’s image accompanied by the flags of the countries of the Americas (a colorful reference to Pope Clement X christening St Rose the “primary saint of the New World.”)

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The Amazon Rainforest & Puerto Maldonado in Peru

June 18, 2015 Pirwa

A visit to the small city of Puerto Maldonado lays the Peruvian Amazon at your feet. It acts as a port for travelers to take boats along the Madre de Dios River to their eco lodges, which will act as a base for canoe trips, treks into the virgin jungle, and more. It’s an amazing combination of vibrant forest, huge rivers and swamps, and diverse flora and fauna. You’ll see exotic plants, animals, and insects that you never knew existed, such as pig-like capybara and pink river dolphins.

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The 5 Best Treks in Peru That You’ve Never Heard Of

May 27, 2015 Pirwa

The Peruvian Andes boasts some of the best hiking on the continent, with a great variety of trails that can take a few hours or a few weeks. Considering that Peru is not only home to the storied Andean range, with its snowy peaks, pastoral valleys, and pristine high altitude lakes, but also to the world’s deepest canyons, volcanoes, ancient pyramids and other mysterious ruins, it’s no surprise that the country has something for everyone. While the fabled Inca Trail to Machu Picchu is Peru’s most famous trek, there are plenty of other options for hiking and nature enthusiasts.