Our annual contest returns today giving you the opportunity to win a Free 7 Day Tour to Machu Picchu. So what’s different this year? well this year we are giving away a space on the Inca Trail for the first time. [Continue reading...]

On January 11th, the Karikuy Organization rolled out its 3rd annual win a free trip to Machu Picchu contest. While every year since its inception we have brought you a different type of contest, we decided that this year we would give the artists; the creative minds out there the opportunity to participate and win the contest. For that reason this years contest is a t-shirt design competition. We are basically looking for the most creative and cool looking t-shirt a mind can create. [Continue reading...]

Trekking to Machu Picchu seemed like an exciting idea three months ago, when I was getting organized for my big trip to South America. At the time, I hadn’t really considered what this ‘trek’ would actually involve. It’s just the ‘thing you do’… after all, I didn’t want to be one of those people who rock up at 6am to Machu Picchu on a bus with their freshly pressed jeans and shirts. I am an independent traveler and I am up for a challenge! [Continue reading...]

To help other trekkers on the Salkantay Trek (or other similar adventures) I thought I would put together my packing list, and go over what was helpful, and what was a waste of money, and backpack space. I will also give you some pointers that I didn’t do…so my mistakes don’t get made again. [Continue reading...]

Altitude sickness is not what I expected at all. I’d heard about people getting dizzy or queasy – but to be honest, I brushed off the warnings quite naively. After all, I’d visited plenty of mountains around the world: Jungfrau in Switzerland (standing at 13,642 ft) and Tai Shan in China (which involved an 8-hour hike up a ridiculous 6,666 granite steps). Our destination: Cusco, near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range, sits at 11,200 ft high. This was going to be easy, I thought. Unfortunately for me, it didn’t quite go down this way. [Continue reading...]