When I went to Montreal over Memorial Day weekend and to Amsterdam last fall, I rented out my apartment on Airbnb.com. On both trips, my friends and I stayed in Airbnb apartments. Clearly, I’m a fan.
One of the services offered by the site is to have your home professionally photographed. So a few weeks ago, a photographer stopped by and snapped a few shots of my apartment. I just got the pictures back and by way of a little (literally) home tour, I thought I’d invite you in.
Despite always wanting to change certain details, I think the pictures turned out great. Check out the photographer’s professional site here. He’s really talented.
After settling into our hotel, we had the afternoon to explore our surroundings and check out the landscape.
After taking in our surroundings, four of us headed over to climb 
It ends with a crazy view of Machu Picchu from above.
But the real challenge, in my opinion, is the initial climb down; check out these steep, narrow stairs!
Once we made it back down to the base, we all met up again and took a tour of the ruins. Honestly, there is so much to see, you could spend a fews days here.
After a relaxing night back at the hotel, we headed back to the Sacred Valley. This time our train ride came with a surprise. About half way through, this guy started dancing up and down the aisles. His debut was followed by a fashion show by the train attendants. Yea, we thought this was strange too – in the most entertaining way!
Once off the train, we headed to an incredible, centuries-old hacienda for our daily pisco sour, a rousing round of this super fun coin toss game called 
The last night and day of our trip was spent in 
On our way back to the states, six of us had the chance to spend a couple hours in Lima (
We stayed in these awesome cabanas and went on jungle excursions during the day (and at night – terrifying!). I’m not sure any of us truly appreciated Peru’s biodiversity before we arrived.
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We checked out the traditional Peruvian dying and weaving process.
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