{"id":5137,"date":"2016-04-04T10:33:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T17:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2016-04-04T10:33:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T17:33:18","slug":"it-was-the-trip-of-a-lifetime-actually-3-trips-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/it-was-the-trip-of-a-lifetime-actually-3-trips-in-one\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It Was The Trip Of A Lifetime \u2013 Actually 3 Trips In One&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span class=\"larger-type\"><b>We appreciate it when our guests share their stories,\u00a0comments and photos with us and allow us to post them on our blog. Barbara &amp; Ashley Blankenship, from Los Angeles, California, traveled with us on our <a href=\"http:\/\/calnative.com\/peru\/peru-machu-picchu-tour-5day.html\">5-Day Peru Explorer with Add-ons<\/a>\u00a0and had this to report:<\/b><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was the trip of a lifetime \u2013 actually 3 trips in one, since the experiences were so different in the Inca region, the rainforest, and the coastal desert.<\/p>\n<p>We loved it all but these were unanticipated pleasures. We especially recommend the Larco Museum in Lima and the museum of Pre-Columbian Art in Cusco for their elegant coverage of pre-Inca materials. We hadn\u2019t expected the Islas Ballestas to be so magnificent. We are glad we dropped by there on our way back from Nasca.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much,<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Barabara &amp; Ashley Blankenship<\/span><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nLos Angeles,\u00a0CA<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5165\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5165\" title=\"Overlooking Machu Picchu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Machu-Picchu-and-llamas.jpg\" alt=\"Overlooking Machu Picchu\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Machu-Picchu-and-llamas.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Machu-Picchu-and-llamas-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Machu-Picchu-and-llamas-459x300.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Overlooking Machu Picchu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We appreciate it when our guests share their stories,\u00a0comments and photos with us and allow us to post them on our blog. Barbara &amp; Ashley Blankenship, from Los Angeles, California, traveled with us on our 5-Day Peru Explorer with Add-ons\u00a0and had this to report: It was the trip of a lifetime \u2013 actually 3 trips &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/it-was-the-trip-of-a-lifetime-actually-3-trips-in-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;It Was The Trip Of A Lifetime \u2013 Actually 3 Trips In One&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44],"tags":[163,15,117,245,35,13,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5167,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions\/5167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}