I'm now back from one of the best trips ever and I will write much more about it in the coming posts. It all started with a flight to Sao Paulo, which almost felt like it could have been my last flight ever. The plane was shaking quite a bit and was making a lot of loud strange noises. Many of the people aboard were praying for their lives. The most interesting part was when the noise stopped for a short while, since it stopped at the same time as we entered some turbulence and the plane started to loose altitude. In the end everything was fine, but after Sao Paulo the plane was supposed to continue to Paris, a flight I'm happy I wasn't on.
We then continued to Peru where we had a wonderful time. We normally book all flights, hotels and everything ourselves, without using a travel agency. However, this time we thought it would be easier to get help from a big agency. We just went in to one and asked if they could create a package with everything we wanted. It worked extremely well. It was so easy and nice to have everything organised and never having to care about transfers or having to check bus times and so on. If there was anything planned for the next day, we received a message in the reception the afternoon/evening before with the time they would pick us up in the lobby of the hotel.
The funny thing about this though, was that we were not listed by our names as normally in hotels. We were not listed by a reference number either. Instead, we were listed as "Camino Inca y Lago", since that's what the travel agency called our booking. It took a while before we realised this in the first hotel and could check in, but afterwards everything was fine. It was pretty funny in the airports when the drivers, who would transfer us to the hotels, had signs with a few normal names and "Camino Inca y Lago".
Of course things happened on the return trip as well, so that it wasn't as smooth as it could have been. We first had a flight from Juliaca to Lima, then Lima to Sao Paulo and finally Sao Paulo to Belo Horizonte. For some reason it wasn't possible to have our bags transferred all the way, but we had to take out our bags at every step and check in again. However, the people who checked in at the desk next to ours were on the same first two flights as us and for them there was no problem having the bags transferred all the way to Sao Paulo.
In Sao Paulo they have a counter only for people with connection flights, which is supposed to speed up things a bit, even though every one who are connecting to domestic flights have to take out their bags and check in again. Of course there was long queue before us and when we finally arrived there we were told that we were too early to check in the bags. First we got a bit annoyed, but then we were able to transfer to an earlier flight, so everything turned out quite well in the end.
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