Sharing our travel experiences accomplishes two things. We get to take you along on our adventures, and this blog serves as a kind of diary for us to chronicle what happened before the details become confused or forgotten altogether.

Case in point. In our last post we promised to tell you all about our epic journey to Machu Picchu. But afterwards when we looked back at the itinerary, we realized we had skipped a day trip that happened beforehand.

Oops. So let’s first recount our memorable (for not all the right reasons) excursion to the Rainbow Mountains of Palcoyo.

When researching interesting activities for our Peru trip, Edd stumbled upon a Rainbow Mountain originally known as Vinicunca. Discovered just over a decade ago when warmer temperatures melted the snow covering it, the mountain’s brightly colored ribbons of different hues have quickly elevated this site to must-see status for adventure travelers.

The issue for these two septuagenarians was an arduous, 2-hour hike at hig...