Originally Posted by AAaLot
What are the options of travel between Cusco and Machu Picchu?
Is Aguas Calientes the right palce to stay?
Is there much to see in Lima?
What hotels do you suggest in Lima, Aguas Calientes, & Cusco?
Maybe I will do:
Day 1 arrive into Lima 6:30pm
Day 2 Leave 6am Lima - Cusco - Aguas Calientes
Day 3 Machu Picchu - Cusco
Day 4 Leave 8:10am Cusco-Lima-next country
First there is really no need to spend anymore time in Lima than absoloutely neccessary. Other than the Gold museum and Church it is pretty lame.
If you want to go see the Nasca Lines you will need to depart from Lima.
Cusco ,if you want to go top dollar, has an Orient Express Hotel ( Hotel Monestario). I would reccomend spending the night in the Orient Express Hotel right next to Macchu Pichu, not in Agua Calientes.
If you stay in Lima there is an Orient Express in Miraflores.
I have always taken the express tourist train from Cusco to mach Pichu, however I have heard they now have helicopter service