Travel Gear for Peru

Mark, Betsy and I are getting ready for our big adventure in Peru.  Arvilla, Craig and kids moved to Peru in August and I have spent the last few months preparing for the trip.  Will be gone for 6 weeks.  We land in Lima Jan 14th . Heather and Chris will be meeting us Feb 2nd to go to Machu Picchu for 2 weeks.   So for the last few months we have been working on exactly where we are going and I was busy looking on booking rooms for all nine of us to stay in the Andes.  My first tip is using Booking.com. It is terrific.  Almost all of the hotels can be booked ahead and you  don't have to put a deposit on the booking.  In Machu Picchu there are limited decent hotels and hostel to book.  They go fast and I would say if you can book 6 months ahead you would be able to get the best rooms for the best price.  I did it 4 months ahead and I had to scramble.  Also Trivago is a place to start looking. They show you all the web sites that book rooms and their cheapest price.  I couldn't find the right size rooms for all of us at one point and saw Expedia.com had the rooms I wanted.  I will say I like Booking.com better but I did get the triple rooms I wanted.  This is my first post and it is a test actually.  

Just boxes of travel gear!