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cheaprwandasafarisblog · 5 months

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Budget Rwanda safaris

Budget safaris in Rwanda can offer an incredible experience for travelers who are mindful of their expenses. Here are some tips and options for budget-friendly safaris in Rwanda:

Gorilla Trekking Permits:

The most significant expense for many visitors to Rwanda is the gorilla trekking permit. These permits can be quite costly, but it's a non-negotiable part of the experience. To save on costs, consider traveling during the low season when permit prices may be lower.

Accommodation:

Look for budget-friendly accommodation options in the areas surrounding Volcanoes National Park. Guesthouses, lodges, and budget hotels may offer more affordable rates compared to luxury lodges. However, be sure to check reviews to ensure the accommodation meets your standards.

Group Tours:

Joining a group tour can be a cost-effective way to experience Rwanda's wildlife. Group tours often offer shared transportation, accommodation, and guide services, reducing individual costs.

Transportation:

Explore options for budget transportation. Public buses and shared minivans (known as matatus) can be more affordable than private transfers.

However, keep in mind that the road conditions may vary, and travel times could be longer.

Camping:

Some budget safari operators offer camping options, which can significantly reduce accommodation costs. Camping near Volcanoes National Park may provide a more immersive experience with nature.

Self-Drive Safaris:

If you're comfortable with driving, consider a self-drive safari. Renting a vehicle allows you to explore at your own pace, and it can be a cost-effective option for those on a budget.

Local Food and Markets:

Save on food expenses by eating at local markets and smaller restaurants. This not only supports local businesses but also provides an opportunity to experience authentic Rwandan cuisine.

Off-Peak Travel:

Traveling during the off-peak season can result in lower prices for accommodations and sometimes even discounted permits for gorilla trekking. However, be aware of the weather conditions during the off-peak period.

Research and Compare:

Research various tour operators and compare their prices and offerings. Sometimes, smaller local operators may provide more affordable options than larger, international companies.

Always ensure that you are booking with a reputable and licensed tour operator to guarantee a safe and enjoyable experience. While opting for budget-friendly options, it's essential to prioritize safety and the well-being of the wildlife and local communities.

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valiantsafaris · 2 years

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gorillasafariplanners · 3 years

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Rules and regulations for gorilla trekking

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– Do not leave litter in the park

– Strictly eight (8) tourists are allowed to track one habituated gorilla family each day

– You are advised to always clean your hands prior going to the forest to track the mountain gorillas

– Always keep the voice low while with the gorillas but where need to ask a question feel free and the guide will be there to explain to you

– Keep a distance of 8 meters away from the gorillas at all times

– You are allowed only one hour to be with the group of gorillas

– Do not smoke, eat or drink while you are close to the mountain gorillas

– When the gorillas charge against you, avoid eye contact with the gorillas or simply bow down to show sign of submission and always follow the guide’s instructions

.– While taking photos, flashlights are not allowed and for those with flashlight cameras, please turn off the flashlights while taking photos

– Avoid body contact with the gorillas

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dramallamadingdang · 7 years

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I’m taking the night off from sky-making because I’m actually ahead of “schedule” and because I’m getting sort of disturbingly obsessed and playing my game for a bit instead, so while it loads, I write a bunch of replies. :)

These are for *deep breath* @penig, @holleyberry, @esotheria-sims, @acquiresimoleons, @kayleigh-83, @didilysims, @tamtam-go92, @dunne-ias, @strangetomato, and @eulaliasims. (Which doesn’t look like a long list, but there are multiple replies for pretty much all of the above, so....Yeah. :) )

penig replied to your photo “Dear Diary, Like wow! I got my first kiss and lost my virginity in...”

Bang it out...I see what you did there...

SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS ME! *heart* :)

holleyberry replied to your photo “And here’s the other one I really wanted: Just a grassy, flat horizon...”

Maxis neighborhood specific ones would be great too.

How do you mean? Like, made from panoramic pictures of specific neighborhoods? It’s an interesting idea, actually. I’d have to reinstall those neighborhoods to do it, though. Unless someone wants to volunteer to take pics for me. ;) Even so, I’m not sure I could get the scale right. Scale is a definite issue with these things. It will never be right, actually, but the most noticeably out-of-scale things on them are definitely buildings, when compared to the size of an actual, in-neighborhood building.

Speaking of Maxis, though... I’ve been fooling around with making some flat horizons to actually match the Maxis terrains, but it’s proving difficult. The scale issues are pretty bad. :\ I mean, like I said, these things are always going to be out of scale with the actual in-game houses and whatnot just because it’s the nature of the beast, but I’m trying to minimize that as much as I can. For some reason, it’s just not working very well with the Maxis terrain textures. I’m hoping to be able to make it work, but right now it’s not looking good. :\

esotheria-sims replied to your photo “Man, I’ve put a lot of work into this one. :) Like *checks time* about...”

Wow, just wow. This has got to be one of the coolest and most realistic skybox recolors I've seen around (though the 'realistic' part doesn't really come as a surprise, considering the source material :D) I'm extremely tempted to turn Strangetown into a miniature pseudo-Arizona town now.

:D That’s pretty much what I’m doing for retro-Strangetown. Because it amuses me to make the town Roswell-esque. Roswell’s in New Mexico, not Arizona, but the terrains in the two states are pretty similar. About the only difference, overall, is that (southern) Arizona has saguaro cacti and New Mexico doesn’t. I think NM is not quite as dry as AZ, but they’re both part of the same big desert, really, so...yeah.

In any case, that sky is one specifically meant for retro-Strangetown, for my own purposes. I also separated the horizon from the sky and put the horizon-only version on a lower layer so that the horizon can be used with any sky. So, the place can have different skies at different times but always have the same surrounding terrain, for continuity’s sake.

acquiresimoleons replied to your photo “Sharon still had that flirt want, and I figure the only way she’s...”

I guess her time with the aliens was fun and she wanted to try it with an earthling

Hah! Yeah, maybe...although in my mind the alien thing isn’t sexual at all. Just a “bit” of genetic engineering. But it might’ve put crazy ideas in her head, nevertheless. :)

kayleigh-83 replied to your photoset “Will, attempting and failing at yoga. But hey! At least he was doing...”

Like juggling, Sims have a remarkable natural aptitude for yoga!

That, and the fact that if you’re a Sim who’s really good at playing the piano, you can also paint like Picasso. Wish it was like that in real life because I’d really like to be able to paint. I mean, I can do all right with digital painting so long as I can use custom Photoshop brushes so that I can just “paint” a shape with a single click. But with actual physical art tools and supplies on an actual canvas or piece of paper? Completely hopeless. *sigh* Although I do plan to take some art classes at the local community college when we go home to CO. I’m hoping to be able to learn something. :)

didilysims replied to your post “I’m having a bit of a dilemma. Need some input. :)”

Some download sites have an option to have individual files in a folder and you can download the entire folder, so maybe that's an option? But honestly whatever's easiest for you is fine. I want 'em no matter what! :D

On SFS you can upload stuff in folders, and then downloaders can choose to download individual files from within the folder. That’s how Lowedeus uploaded his recent batch of skies. I’m thinking that might be better for folks with slower internet connections or those who know they don’t want every sky and want to pick and choose. I’m going to make a photo album on my Livejournal space with at least one pic of every sky, that such folks can reference in order to decide what they want. I’m thinking I’ll do a folder as well as a single file with everything in one, for people who just want everything and who have the internet bandwidth to download it all within a reasonable amount of time. That ought to cover all the bases, I think.

didilysims replied to your post “You used to use a bite neck mod for vampires. Do you still use it?...”

Cool ideas! I definitely want to steal the no food for vamps plan! Part of me also wants to steal the turn/kill randomization too, but I know I would be so sad if someone had to die. :(

Yeah, I can understand that. I’m just not overly-sentimental about my pixel people. Actually, I get far more attached to the pets than I do to the human Sims. So, I don’t have problems with killing Sims when the random number generator says to kill them and/or to have them die of illness thanks to RealSickness. And sometimes...Well, sometimes a population just NEEDS culling, especially because I let Sims breed as they will. In such neighborhoods, when I’ve got vamp residents, I’ll usually bump up the chance of bitten Sims being killed as population control. BUT! If you wanted to try it out, you could say they can only bite/turn/kill townies that you don’t really care about. :)

tamtam-go92 replied to your photo “Will decided to skip class, so I sent him off to the park that I...”

Lol, I have a sim that has three bolts with a guy with the same face template too xD

There’s always that one gorilla-faced dormie! :D I actually don’t mind that template at all. If you breed ‘em with a Sim with the right features to sort of soften the gorilla-ness, the kids are actually pretty darn cute. Usually chubby-cheeked and full-lipped but not as extreme as the gorilla-face. I have a weakness for chubby cheeks, myself. :)

tamtam-go92 replied to your photo “As if spending most of his time yakking with dormies wasn’t enough...”

I LOVE the tiles!

Yeah, they’re pretty cool. Maxis, too, since those made-over Academie Le Tour buildings I use are all CC-free, and I see no reason to make them otherwise, for the (relatively) short time that Sims live there. I think those tiles came with Nightlife, IIRC...

penig replied to your photo “Alien pregnancy doesn’t stop Sharon from being a complete nerd. It...”

You say "complete nerd" like it's a bad thing.

Nah, not bad, per se. Just reminds me too much of me when I was young and way too serious and not-fun for my own good. Being a complete anything can be a bad thing, after all. There was so much I missed out on when I was young because I was so focused on being a superior student and then on my career. The former actually didn’t have that huge of a positive impact on the latter. And I sort of gave up the career path I’d planned on to focus on raising my kids -- which I hadn’t planned on having -- anyway. So, in the end, all that seriousness and nerdy and sort of arrogant scholasticism had no real net gain and, like I said, made me miss out on experiences that probably would’ve been greatly enriching both personally and professionally. So...moderation in all things is my philosophy now. Which isn’t to say that I’m not a nerd at all. I mean, an encyclopedic knowledge of Star Trek as well as a nerdy fascination with arthropods kind of clinches that. But I don’t strive to be a complete nerd anymore.

dunne-ias replied to your photoset “So. I made skies. Like, *cough* 30 of them. So far! Above is a...”

I find it hilarious that you "need to get your butt in bed now" when you live where you live compared to where I live and it's actually approaching MY bedtime.

:D Yeah, being nocturnal and living on the US west coast and going to bed around noonish my time does sort of put me on the same sleep schedule as normal diurnal people in especially the more eastern parts of Europe that are 9 or 10 hours or so ahead of where I am. Like you, for instance. :)

penig replied to your photo “Oh God, not you, too, Will! Just sitting there, not playing chess,...”

Replace the chairs. They're too comfy.

See, that’s the thing. Those same chairs are used in other places in the dorm, not just at the chess table. Yet they choose the ones at the chess table, even if they have to walk past other iterations of the same chair to get to it. It’s weird. I can’t figure it out.

didilysims replied to your photo “The cow mascot was wandering around, doing her thing. Must hurt to get...”

Eh, they're just cheap plastic. Look at the tacky shine on 'em.

Well, yeah, but cheap plastic can still hurt if it pokes you hard enough!

...OK, that sounded vaguely dirty somehow. :)

kayleigh-83 replied to your photo “The cow mascot was wandering around, doing her thing. Must hurt to get...”

I love those mascots, such shit disturbers!

Y’know, I’m actually not a huge fan of the mascots in general. I find them more annoying than anything, same as I do Crumplebottom. Usually, I ban them with the Visitor Controller. For some reason I decided to let them torment dorms (they’re still banned in private on-campus residences, where it seems less appropriate for strangers to be barging in to do strange things) for now. I’m sure they will become annoying enough to ban them again, but for now...Yeah, they’re amusing me. And hey! The cow mascot’s sprinkler prank gives the germophobes something to do, with all the mopping. *eye roll*

strangetomato replied to your post “Later that night...”

I will never be tired of the silly date gifts.

It’s actually one of my favorite things about the whole dating thing. They make me laugh and/or they can sometimes be really useful. In fact, if they didn’t exist, I might not send any of my Sims on any actual, official timed dates at all. But since timed dates/outings are the only way to get the silly pressies, I do...

eulaliasims replied to your photo “Oh, God, it’s time to finish this thing. :P It’s campus housing, to...”

Apartment lots *are* a pain to furnish. Shift-key and dump identical bare necessities in each apartment is my method. At least the building looks gorgeous! I like the mix of windows. :D

Thank you! See, part of my problem with apartments is that I really can’t bear to furnish/decorate them identically. I really don’t know why. I mean, if I download an apartment lot with identically-furnished units, I’m perfectly OK with using them as-is. But, if I’m building the building, I just...can’t. I have to do them all differently. So, it’s like committing to decorating four (or more!) entire houses for one lot, and since furnishing/decorating is pretty much my least-favorite aspect of building...Yeah, apartment lots sort of intimidate me. Love building them. They’re fun to design/build. But the rest of it? Ugh, such a burden. :)

#penig #holleyberry #esotheria-sims #acquiresimoleons #kayleigh-83 #didilysims #tamtam-go92 #dunne-ias #strangetomato #eulaliasims

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gorillatrips · 4 years

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Birding And Bird Watching Sites In Uganda

Uganda is a prime destination for anyone with an interest in birding. Uganda’s birdlife is Remarkable, and few visitors or residents can fail to be impressed by the large variety of colourful birds they see and by their relative tameness. A Bird Watching In Uganda can get you to grip on to the pre-historical Shoebill stork, Great blue turaco, African green broadbill, and the Nkulengu rail in Semuliki National Park and savannah birds that will fascinate and intrigue beginners to hardcore bird-watchers. Adventure Birding In Uganda is an encounter for all seasoned world birders.

Some 1057 species have been recorded in East Africa, which represents approximately 11% of the world’s bird species and 50% of Africa’s bird Count. The main reason for the big numbers of Birds In Uganda is because of the varied landscape with swamps, forests, lakes, mountains, and savannas.

Read: Bird Checklists of Eastern Africa

Even though the number of recorded species is slowly increasing, we cannot afford to be complacent: the destruction of habitats, due largely to an ever-increasing human population, has placed several species in danger. Some birds are threatened, including the Crowned Crane, Uganda’s national bird, which is at risk because of the draining of its swamp habitat and the wild exotic bird trade. The latest threat to vultures and scavenging birds of prey is the use of a cheap and readily available poison, Furadan. It is being used widely to kill mammals such as Lion, Leopard and Hyaena, mainly on private land but also in protected areas. When these animals die they are fed upon by vultures, birds of prey and other scavengers, which are then also poisoned.

Read More: Bird Checklists Of Eastern Africa

In this article, we give you a summarized table of Birding Sites In Uganda, the number of expected bird’s species and the bird’s species you might possibly not miss.

Other Birding Sites In Uganda includes Mabira forest (312 species recorded), Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary (250 bird species recorded), Bigodi wetland Sanctuary (138 bird species recorded), Entebbe Botanical Gardens and Lutembe bay.

Although many birds can be seen at close range in the region’s parks and reserves, binoculars are essential for Bird Watching In Uganda. If you wish, then Uganda Birding can be mixed with trekking of Gorillas or Chimps as well as classic game-drive safari.

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hermosalifetourism-blog · 7 years

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cheaprwandasafarisblog · 5 months

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wheresmyvisa · 7 years

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Conservation Through Public Health, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda, August 12-13

It was not easy to get to Bwindi Impenetrable Forrest, but it was so worth the effort. Our direct flight from Kilimanjaro to Entebbe was canceled and moved to the next day … twice. After much angst and research, the best alternative we could find to our 1.5 hour direct flight was a flight through Rwanda, with a 4.5 hour layover, that would get us into Entebbe at 2 am. Nick wanted to stay in the airport until our 5:30 am checkin time for our bush flight to Bwindi, but I couldn’t deal with it and rallied to find a cheap hotel in Entebbe for a few hours nap. The 2-hour, $180 nap was the best nap I ever had and made the next day so much better.

Ugandan veterinarian Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka was the first wildlife veterinarian in Uganda. There are only 800 mountain gorillas in the world. 400 of them are in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, and the rest are in other forests in Uganda, Rwanda, and Democratic Republic of Congo.

Dr. Gladys discovered that with people living on the edge of the mountain gorilla’s forest habitat, these close relatives to humans were contracting diseases from livestock feces, bacteria found on scarecrow clothing in the fields, and other accessible points of human and livestock contact. Through postmortem investigations and community reconnaissance, she concluded that the declining health of the mountain gorillas was directly related to poor human conditions in the neighboring communities, poor human health was related to poverty, and poverty was linked to lack of family planning.

So Dr. Gladys founded Conservation Through Public Health to promote a more healthy symbiosis between humans, livestock, and mountain gorillas. My family visited with Dr. Gladys and the CTPH field crew at their Bwindi Impenetrable Forest camp in Buhoma, Uganda. Since CTPH has been active in this area, the percentage of families practicing family planning has grown to more than double the national average in Uganda, and gorilla chasers have played an important role in sending gorillas who enter neighboring communities back into the forest. CTPH has also developed programs for neighboring coffee farmers to increase revenues while helping to conserve gorillas, detected disease outbreak in gorilla populations early in order to treat human-impacted infections.

Here is an overview of the programs we had the privilege to observe.

HUGO

Hugo was established in the late 1990s by a Peace Corp volunteer who trained volunteers on how to encourage mountain gorillas to go back into the forest when they penetrated community farms and lands. The monetary incentives that were originally planned didn’t materialize, and morale declined. CTPH designed and established a program to incentivize Hugo volunteers with participatory community investments.

Hugo volunteers participate in groups of 5 or 6 each that serve a particular community. When a gorilla is seen in a farm, garden, or elsewhere in the community, the Hugo volunteers are called in to chase the gorilla(s) back into their habitat. They stay for another 3 or 4 hours in case they come out again.

Each group is given a few goats every year that they take care of and cultivate for profits that go into a group fund. The Hugo group members also contribute to the fund and provide micro-loans to each other through the fund. They all have by-laws, officers, and regular meetings. We were able to meet with one of the groups. They were very proud of their work and asked if they could get t-shirts with Hugo written on them so that they can show off their unity and pride.

Family Planning

CTPH has about 75 community volunteers who talk to village residents about the benefits of family planning. It can help them rise out of poverty and illness. This in turn promotes a more balanced eco-system with the neighboring wildlife. When families are too large to acquire enough resources for health care, sanitation, food, and education, they go into the forest for food and firewood, and do not respect wildlife habitats and safety. When parents are able to provide for their children more readily, humans and wildlife are more able to thrive side-by-side.

CTPH volunteers administer birth control to women. They have been able to pass legislation that does not require a doctor’s note for several very effective long-term methods. The women on the Bwindi region using birth control more than double the rate of Uganda’s national average.

Gorilla Conservation Coffee

The Bwindi area is excellent climate and geography for going coffee beans, but it can be hard for the farmers to make a living so they use wildlife poaching to supplement their incomes. CTPH established Gorilla Conservation Coffee to create an alternative to poaching for the farmers. The program has worked with the farmers to help them to harvest high quality beans and sell them at a better price to GCC, which is then roasted and marketed with proceeds supporting CTPH. They are working now to export to more markets in Africa and ultimately Europe and the US.

We toured a coffee bean farm that is a Gorilla Conservation Coffee partner and used an old hand crank grinder used to squeeze the outer cherry coating off of the bean.

Health Monitoring

CTPH collect gorilla dung samples once a month, and in between when they find abnormal looking dung. This enables them to track and treat human inflicted disease quickly and minimize further outbreaks.

We couldn’t go to Bwindi without going gorilla tracking ourselves. We were impressed with how controlled the access to the gorillas is in order to protect their health. Unfortunately Becca was not able to join us, as there is a strict age limitation of 15 and older. This is because children below that age have a higher rate of infection that can spread and are more easily excited by the presence of the gorillas which can cause the gorillas to become agitated and aggressive. She was able to go on a waterfall walk in Bwindi with Dr. Gladys’s sons who were also too young. An armed ranger who accompanied them put some added excitement into the trek.

Access to the gorillas is very restricted by limiting very pricey permits. Gorilla permits cost $600 each! While this seems really high, Rwanda just increased theirs to $1500 each. And once we saw how much they do to protect the gorillas, it was evident that the budget is large. Permits were sold out in the gorilla tracking section of the park near our camp, so we had to drive almost an hour and a half to a different section.

We had to arrive at 8 am for a briefing about how close we could get to the gorillas (7 meters), how to act, what to expect, when to eat and drink, and where to relieve ourselves.

We would walk into the forest with an assigned group of 8, along with a guide and a police officer with a rifle. The police officer was there to protect us from wild elephants, who can be very aggressive when they see humans. The gun would most likely be used just as a warning shot in the air to scare the elephants away. Fortunately we did not encounter any. As we hiked through the thick and steep forest, it was really hard to picture an elephant stomping through it.

We would be tracking a specific family of gorillas, while other groups of 8 would go to different areas of the forest to track the 3 other families of this section of the forest. Park rangers track the gorillas every day to see where they sleep. The gorillas build a nest every night in which to sleep and then abandon it in the morning and move on. The rangers go in the morning to the sleep nest to see which way the gorillas go to start their day. This helps the tourist tracking groups to find them easier. They warned us that it could take 15 minutes to find them or all day. Once we found them, we would be allowed no more than one hour to be with them. We were asked to expect our day to be “short, long, or medium.”

Half of the gorilla families in Bwindi are habituated to humans. This is done intentionally for scientific observation and tourism. The other half of the gorillas population would not permit humans to watch them and would run and hide at an encounter.

We were fortunate to only spend about an hour hiking into the dense forest before reaching the gorillas. I couldn’t believe how close were were to them. I couldn’t believe how much they seemed not to care about our presence. I couldn’t believe I was watching gorillas in the middle of a forest in Uganda. They were so beautiful and docile.

The silverback is the lead male of a group. He is the only male who is allowed to mate with the females. The group we tracked had just split off from another group. In the original larger group, one of the sons who was now old enough to mate decided it was time for him to take over. He and his father sparred a bit for leadership, and then ultimately decided to split up. When this happens, the females decide which silverback to go with. The mother of the new silverback went with him.

The new silverback we tracked chose to mate with one of the females about 10 minutes into our observation period, in an open area in full view. One of the babies was jumping around them, oblivious to the while thing. When it was over, the silverback sat to rest and posed for us for a while, and the female and baby joined him until he was ready to move on with their feeding.

We watched the whole family munch on leaves and grass, young gorillas play high in the trees, and babies try to imitate and break into whatever action they could. I watched one baby try over and over again to climb a tree. Every time he would get up a few feet, he’d hopelessly slide down again.

It was hard to keep up with them. They were on the move a lot, up dense and steep forest slopes. We definitely earned our gorilla tracking certificates that the park ranger awarded to us at the end of our expedition.

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Terrance Talks Travel: The Quirky Tourist Guide to Machu Picchu & Cuzco (Peru) - Terrance Zepke

Terrance Talks Travel: The Quirky Tourist Guide to Machu Picchu & Cuzco (Peru) Terrance Zepke Genre: Latin America Price: $5.99 Publish Date: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Terrance Zepke Seller: Smashwords, Inc. One of the best adventure destinations in the world is Machu Picchu. But it's also one of the most visited places with close to 500,000 visitors annually, so the Peruvian government has just added more tourism regulations to protect it. Find out everything you need to know about visiting this UNESCO site, including what type of ticket you should buy, how to buy the ticket, the best time to go, how to get there (an adventure in and of itself), how you should pack, ten things you must see while there, and much more. Did you know that the Classic Inca Trail Trek to Machu Picchu is one of the five best treks in the world? This reference also provides tourism information for Cuzco and Sacred Valley. While there, you may want to... *Ride the world's longest zipline. *Take a llama trek. *Explore the Sacred Valley while riding a Peruvian Paso Horse through villages and past scenic lakes, mountains, and ancient Inca ruins. *Take a thrilling ATV tour of the Maras Salt Pans. *Stay in the only lodge at Machu Picchu. *Participate in a special Andean Ritual to Mother Earth. *Experience exhilarating Class IV rapids while whitewater rafting on the Urubamba River. *Shop 'til you drop at one of the local markets. *Take a night tour of Cuzco and learn how to make the perfect Pisco Sour. *Attend a Peruvian cooking class and sample local delicacies, such as Cuy and Patatas Bravas. *Visit the only chocolate museum in this part of the world and attend a chocolate-making workshop that includes lots of samples! *Find out about natural hot springs near Machu Picchu that offers dozens of different therapeutic pools. *Learn about the only Skylodge in the world. Hope you're not afraid of heights! Plus, learn how to stay healthy (including how to avoid altitude sickness), how to stay safe, how to exchange money, how to save money, and much more! Terrance Zepke is an award-winning and best-selling author of fifty books, including the popular TERRANCE TALKS TRAVEL and CHEAP TRAVEL series. She is a travel blogger, agent, and host of UBER ADVENTURES. She has lived all over the world and traveled to every continent. She has enjoyed many adventures while globe-trotting, including dog-sledding in the Arctic, shark cage diving in South Africa, piranha fishing on the Amazon, camping in the Himalayas, a gorilla safari in Uganda, hiking the Inca Trail, and hot-air ballooning over the Northern Serengeti. She has been featured in most major media, including The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, The Rick Steves Show, Around the World, CNN, NPR, Travel Channel, and The Learning Channel. For more about this author and her titles visit www.terrancetalkstravel.com and www.terrancezepke.com. http://bit.ly/2Et6XVG

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