What should you pay attention to when traveling to Peru?

1. If you want to travel to Peru and Chile from home, you must apply for a visa at least three months in advance. Looking back now, we only got the Peruvian visa at the end of July 2006, and started applying for the Chilean visa at the beginning of August. As a result, the Chilean Embassy Visa Office was so inefficient that it didn't approve it until mid-September. We had no choice but to temporarily change the air tickets and itinerary, and finally changed it to Peru one place tour. The funny thing is that it wasn’t until a month after I returned to Beijing from Peru in mid-November that the Chilean Embassy suddenly notified me of visa approval and asked me to take my passport to apply for a visa!

2. Those who have self-driving experience can consider it Rent a car to visit Lima, NAZCA, and Paracas National Park. The road conditions are good and the scenery along the way is good. It would be better if four people share the rental fee. We were worried about safety and did not rent a car, which is a pity. We are taking Air Canada round trip from Beijing to Toronto to Lima. The ticket price including tax is about 15,000 yuan per person. It is an individual passenger ticket. There is no way. Air Canada’s route to South America is for passengers departing from China. The shortest distance, the price is advantageous, and it also saves at least four hours of flight time. Most of the Chinese people who take this route are business travelers, businessmen, offices of large domestic companies in South America, etc. For them, Canadian transit visa is not a problem, while self-guided tourists must apply for Canadian transit visa before taking the route. Air Canada flies to South America, so you need to get your visa early.

3. If Brazil, Peru, Chile and Argentina are the top four countries for traveling in South America, and your vacation does not last more than 20 days, it is better to travel to one country at a time. This time, although my husband and I failed to apply for Chilean visas before traveling, we had no choice but to spend 11 days in Peru. Looking at it now, fortunately there was a problem with the Chilean visas, otherwise the original plan of only spending eight days in Peru would have been too stressful. .

4. It is wise to arrange NAZCA Nazca Lines and PARACAS National Park before CUSCO Kuzco (Machu Picchu) and TITICACA Lake Titicaca. I just took it. It takes more than 20 hours to fly and we will immediately go to high-altitude cities such as CUSCO. It will take more time to adapt to altitude sickness.

5. Most people fly from Lima to CUSCO in the morning. It is recommended that after arriving at 10-11 o'clock, do not stay at CUSCO that night and rush directly from CUSCO to Lima. Chu Picchu, living in the small town at the foot of Machu Picchu? Aguas Calientes. The altitude of this town is only over 2,400 meters. Nearly a thousand meters lower than CUSCO, it is a good way to gradually adapt to the altitude. More importantly, it is very easy to visit Machu Picchu the next day. When a large number of tourists arrive from CUSCO early in the morning, it is already 10 o'clock, and you are already I spent more than two hours quietly admiring Machu Picchu.

6. If you don’t want to take a sightseeing flight (if you have airsickness, it is recommended to go on an empty stomach), you can go to the observation tower next to the highway, where you can only see two or three geoglyphs. I'm sorry to say that my husband and I both got airsick, which was the result of a gluttonous breakfast. We got off the plane, returned to the hotel, and rested until 11 o'clock before we recovered. After checking out of the room, we continued on our way.

7. Leave the NAZCA Nazca Line and go north along the Pan-American Highway in the afternoon. The Pan-American Highway is a highway that winds along the Pacific Ocean. One side of the highway is sea water and the other side is desert. The view is stunning!

8. Language is not a big problem in hotels and tourist areas, but it can be a problem in remote places. But it doesn’t matter. For Spanish words that you can’t pronounce, just pronounce them in Chinese Pinyin first. If the other party still doesn’t understand, then you can only use gestures.

Peruvian people are very simple people. They don’t worry if they don’t understand English and just speak their own Spanish!