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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We went in August and it was fine.  As PPs have said, depends on the region.  In Cuzco/mountains, you layer up because it is cold in the mornings and evenings, but gets comfortably warm during the day (70s).  The Amazon is hot and humid all the time.  Lima was chilly and misty but we didn't spend much time there.

I would agree that you need minimum two weeks to go to both Machu Picchu and Amazon - but both are so worth it.  We spent a week in each.

This is a great opportunity for your DD - we took ours when she was 8 (she's 14 now) and she is in an immersion school so was also speaking Spanish very well.  She absolutely loved it.  On our first day there, we happened to walk by a public park in Lima that was packed with local kids, and she wanted to play so we stopped.  Well she jumped right on the merry-go-round and started playing with them, chatting away in Spanish.  We spent a good chunk of time there letting her hang out and play with a bunch of kids.   When we were up in the mountains, we were on a bus one day visiting the Sacred Valley stopping at various sites.  There was only one other kid on the tour that day and he was a little boy her age from Lima, who didn't speak English.  The two of them hung out all day having a great time because she could communicate with him in Spanish.  On the bus they were singing songs together that she knew because she had learned them in school from her Peruvian Kindergarten teacher!

To me, these were two priceless highlights of an amazing trip.  We try to travel to Spanish-speaking countries every year with her and have since been to Costa Rica, Argentina, Puerto Rico and Spain.  In Argentina, we stayed on a horse ranch where she rode horses all day with the local kids.  Again, priceless experience.

Good luck - you're going to love it![/quote]

Can you share the info for the horse ranch in Argentina?[/quote]

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