Some notes, maybe someone will find it useful
There are many stories about the pen, so I will not repeat it.
What I do not advise you to do: travel by bus, although it is cheap, it takes a lot of time and unforeseen excesses are possible.
Having flown to Lima, I spent the night in an inexpensive hostel, the area is good, not far from the ocean, I took a walk before going to bed, a beautiful embankment. Then I decided to take a bus to Cusco.
I have excellent physical training and I have been in the mountains before, but . .
After driving 6 hours on the bus, I realized that I could not continue.
I got out in some town, found out that the bus to Lima took only an hour, which I was delighted with. Why I left - because I could not breathe, I was in a hysterical state, tears were flowing, a lump in my throat, I was terribly sick, and in general it seemed that I was dying. I was traveling in first class, downstairs, where the seats comfortably fold out into recumbent places, TV and all that.
I crawled to the ticket office, took a ticket, went to look for shirts-pills.
As you probably already understood, this is exactly what started for me,
mountain sickness, she is a shirt. These pills didn't really help me. On the way back, I ran into the toilet for vomiting. Since there was nothing, it was even worse, a terrible headache appeared. However, when we descended from the height and drove up to the lima, everything went by itself, the state of health returned to normal. I went to the airport and took a ticket to Cusco (expensive, 160 dollars, but for today).
In Cusco, I immediately went to the pharmacy, they gave me completely different robes-pils, they explained that the effect would be in three days, and the fact that they had sold me earlier was not it (but they sold it at the pharmacy! )
I stayed in Cusco for a week, I saw everything I wanted, although the originally planned route to Machu Picchu (bus + 12 km on foot) had to be cancelled. Despite the fact that I felt quite normal, I couldn’t walk more than 300 meters, since taxis are unmeasured there and cost a penny. Well, I'm not the only one, I noticed that people even take a taxi for 100 meters, it's really hard to walk.
What not to do in hotels: in the first place you can bargain, in the second it is MANDATORY to insist on paying for the room right now (they will insist that in the morning). Well, in the morning it will be from more expensive than you agreed to much more expensive. You can, of course, call the police for foreigners, or swear with them, but in figs it’s necessary, you came to rest and not to wag your nerves. So it's easier to pay immediately upon moving in)).
As a result, I examined the surroundings of Cusco (and there is much worthy of attention, it’s better to immediately take a ticket to all the sights, it will be several times cheaper)
Then I went to the travel agency and asked if they had cheap flights. I'm a poor tourist and I don't have much money. Name the dates you need. As a result, four air tickets Cusco - (I don’t remember the city where Lake Tititakka is) - Tarapoto-Lima cost me $ 240 + $ 20 was taken by the bureau for services.
What not to do with the locals: if you are offered to shine your shoes, or take a picture with a llama or whatever -
ask how much it costs - the normal price is one local tugrik. Well, or 2 if you are very satisfied. If they tell you "its
up that yu" (like pay what you want), run away from the bottom.
After the work done (for example, cleaned shoes, and there it’s not superfluous because there is a lot of dust), they will start demanding 20-50 dollars from you, telling you how expensive the paint is. If you like this kind of entertainment, then you can of course make fun, but I was not in the mood and gave 2 tugriks and when they sang a song to me that his poor man was being robbed because his work costs $ 50, then I took out the phone and said that I was calling "foreign policy" (and the police cat solves the problems of foreigners there really is and you can call them if something happens) Pranishka was blown away by the wind.
Well, the fact that they don’t give change to a couple of tugriks, and everywhere, this is a local tradition, I got used to it and looked philosophically.
There are 4000 meters on Lake Tititaka and I hardly examined part of what I wanted, but it’s very interesting there, especially for lovers of history and archeology, but when you can’t walk you are suffocating and tears come out of your eyes (and I cried for the last time for 20 years back and generally very calm), then somehow it is not very considered.
But when she arrived in Tarapoto, she took a deep breath. There is always 30 degrees of heat, day and night, but it is not felt. tropics, jungles, waterfalls, few tourists penny prices.
A liter of juice - $ 2, freshly squeezed, you choose what you want, at least pineapples, even mangoes, grapefruit oranges - whatever you want, they will make a mix of that.
Rickshaw boys call visitors a little overpriced, well, more than for locals. You can bargain, I didn't. Well, a 14-16 year old child will earn an extra tugrik, I will not get poorer from this.
And yes, whoever travels to the highlands of the country, stock up in advance, still at home, sorochi pils. Do not need it yourself - help out a dying neighbor. I'll tell you another strange thing. I talked to one Belgian, at an altitude of about 4000 m, near the tititaka. He had been at a higher altitude than this, but this was the first time he had mountain sickness. Feature of Peru?
You can also take tea from coca, and buy and chew coca leaves, the locals say that it helps. Well, it doesn’t get worse from them, but some confusion of consciousness passes, the head clears up.
Don't be afraid, it's not a drug in any way.
Peru in general is a very interesting country, and the part where the Amazon is, the jungle is generally the most beautiful