2007 Peru to Bolivia wedding travel on the road

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The options for our honeymoon were initially two:
take the classic honeymoon all inclusive resort to some kind of dream or Polynesia Maldives or continue to travel independently slamming as in all our previous trips.
Obviously doubt lasted very little and following our nature we chose the second option.
We knew before leaving that Peru and Bolivia, as indeed all of South America, would not be very peaceful places to visit, but we never expected to travel so tormented ...
But let's go with order:

Mon July 2

We start Monday, July 2 at 7:20 from Milan Linate airport and after a full 18 hours and 40 minutes flight with 2 stops in Frankfurt and Caracas finally arrive at 20.00 local time (x we are the 3 am) in Lima.
Nights at Hotel Espana in calle Azanguero 105 to 50 meters from the Plaza des Armas (11 € per night, double room with bath), a hotel but a bit retro with its own particular charm situated in a prime position to turn the center of the city and with a value for money unbeatable.

MAR July 3

Wake up at 04:00 and departure to 06.00 with a flight from Lima destination Taca Peru Cuzco. We arrive at 7:15 in the ancient Inca capital, and enjoy immediately the climate Andean (bitter cold, blue sky and green mountains).
Reach the beautiful neighborhood of San Blas where accommodation at the Hostal Real at Calle Tandapata Pack. This hostel is placed in an unfamiliar environment cute (San Blas), interior is very well maintained and above all it offers excellent value for money (14 € for a double room with bath room and hot breakfast included in price). The owner greets us with the classic "mate de coca" a tea made of coca leaves used to alleviate the effects of "altitude sickness" (the altitude sickness, we are at 3400mt ...), we gladly accept but for the entire holiday, from 4000 to 3400mt of Cuzco up to 5000mt of Titicaca Colca Canyon, neither I nor Christina have never suffered from any ailment, so it's very subjective, cross your fingers and hope ..
Drunk mate we rest two hours at room destroyed by the journey the day before and the time zone is not yet fully absorbed (7 hours difference).
At 10 we go out from and through the alleys of San Blas 5 minutes after we reach the heart of the city: the beautiful Plaza de Armas.
Cuzco-level atmosphere has something really special ... it will 'that the mountains around are green such as Heidi (pero' instead of hello, there are kids who are llamas that spit), will be 'round that there are a Lots of Indians dressed as Indians, will be 'the color of light or the walls built by the Incas, mixed with colonial architecture ... will be' what will 'but the place is,' as they say the young Peruvians, "chevere". .. cool!!
Leaving the square we go to the train station to book tickets for the next destination Aguas Calientes. An economic drain! Choose the route Ollantaytambo-Aguas Calientes overnight return by railway Vistadome and pay € 57 a head ... but unfortunately there is no alternative, as Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu and then) can be reached only by train or The Inka Trail and having discarded the second we can do is this option.
Leave the station and brings us to the typical fruit and vegetable market and little tourist faces to buy the famous coca leaves. For a bag of cocaine and the rock salt ash required to activate the effect of the leaves spend 3 soles (0.75 cents of €). Try now the new signing and I put one by one the leaves in your mouth, rub the stone on the leaves and suck ... after 5 minutes the mouth is completely numb, the feeling is strange but kind of nice, but unfortunately I can not tell if The leaves have a positive effect against altitude sickness, because I've never suffered, but for sure if more than 1000 years using the premises for this purpose also there is a reason no?
Closed parenthesis coca, with a taxy reach the station on Calle Tulumayu colectivos to Pisac.
With 2 soles each (i taxy call for 50, but many agencies in dollars ...), we climb on a dilapidated bus in the company of Peruvian and only after 45 minutes of twists and beautiful landscapes we arrive in Pisac. Let us now turn to a typical market, so after a quick and refreshing lunch at Dona Carmen Pl Des Armas (45 G in 2) take a taxy and reach the ancient Inca ruins.
The price of taxy to reach the ruins and practically fixed (40 G), but managed to negotiate a discount coupon (25 sol a / r with waiting 2 hours) because given the late hour, we had no other competitors. We reach the ruins after about 20 minutes, with a stop at the ticket counter where to buy the Tourist Boleto for 70 sol per person (€ 17 cc), which entitles entrance to the main attractions in the area of Cuzco (Machu Picchu is not included ...) . The taxy leaves us to the top of the ruins and wait for us 2 hours later at the low. The first thing you notice is the breathtaking view of the valley, with beautiful Inca terraces, the visit continues with the district of Pisac Hanan surrounded by walls, then after a steep staircase and the passage in the "Tunnel of Puma (att.ne to head!) we reach a beautiful viewpoint from where you can admire the Temple of the Sun in all its beauty. Going to get all'Intihuatana the fulcrum of the entire site. These ruins are beautiful and worth the ticket price alone. After quest'entusiasmante vision we move toward the parking lot where we expect the taxy that in about 15 minutes takes us back to Pisac.
Take another around the marketplace with adjoining shopping, so after a good mate de coca sipped from the terrace of a bar in Des Armas Pl admiring the comings and goings of people, we share in colectivos to Cuzco. Along the way we shot the whole volume of the radio also Peru-Bolivia in Copa America soccer with adjoining scenes of jubilation and despair to a goal by either team.
We arrive in Cusco at around 19, we reach San Blas and dine without returning to the room to rest.

Wed July 4

We wake up early thanks to the time zone is not yet fully assimilated and we go immediately to the station for colectivos Urubamba. This time we opt for the collective self, we pay only 6 per person and per hour in Urubamba we are, change of car, and after another 20 minutes and 2 only arrive at our destination Ollantaytambo daily. Before visiting the ruins make a good second breakfast (the first we had done in a hotel in Cuzco) on the central square of the country in complete solitude with no other tourists. Around 9.30 and then we start visiting the ancient Incan fortress (entrance with Boleto). We are among the first to enter, and enjoy the full site (all inclusive tourists only come to the 10.30/11.00). The impression is huge as you climb the steep staircase leading to the fortress through beautiful Inca terraces. The fortress overlooks the valley of the Urubamba River and is very suggestive, that is without doubt a thorough examination and not superficial.
Around 11.30 am when the site is now overrun with tour groups we go and reach the village to have lunch. We eat from Inka Llacta Pl Des Armas in spending a fortune (40 G in 2 cc € 10) with good satisfaction with the food, then we reach the station on foot (about 1km) where at 14.45 we take the train to Aguas Calientes. The ride is comfortable.