Our tour leader was late because of airline delays in the US (he had been taking his own vacation in Switzerland). Also, two of our tour group turned up late. Once we got all of that sorted, we were off in a van for our first Mayan site: Chichen Itza.
Chichen Itza is one of the more popular Mayan sites. Perhaps too popular, since you can’t climb up any of the pyramids any more. Continue reading
Cancun is on my Mayan Discovery tour just as a starting point. No actual touring occurs here.
I ate every meal in this plaza with lots of hole-in-the-wall restaurants.
We flew back to Lima on Feb. 6. We nearly missed our flight because they were changing gtaes around. At the Cusco Airport, there’s no signs that show gate assignments after security, and any announcements are as unintelligible as any other airports. Thanks to Lisa who kept nagging the TACA emplyees to figure out where we were supposed to be, especially after they started giving us contradictory information.
I had the Lima part of my culinary tour on the 7th, but it wasn’t as good as in Cusco: a redundant market tour, less time actually hands-on cooking, and the meal was ceviche which I’m not a big fan of.
On the 8th I took a bus tour of Lima, and then late that night I headed for the airport.
