The bus stations are clean, modern and efficient. The US needs to get right with their stations and bus service.

Luxery buses. I was served dinner and the next morning breakfast. It was a 20 hour bus ride from Lima to Cuzco, where my hike to Machu Piccu will begin.

These are desert dunes, eight stories high and solid as compacted gravel. And they run for 100s of miles. Not a cactus, blade of grass or a human footprint.

My bus.

Price per liter in soles, which run about 290 to the dollar. You do the math.