{"id":9256,"date":"2014-08-05T18:32:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T23:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=9256"},"modified":"2019-02-06T15:01:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:01:21","slug":"antonio-banderas-tribute-to-the-inca-trail-machu-picchu-peruvian-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2014\/antonio-banderas-tribute-to-the-inca-trail-machu-picchu-peruvian-friends\/9256\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Banderas&#8217; tribute to the Inca Trail, Machu Picchu &#038; Peruvian friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish actor Antonio Banderas left more than a simple thank you note in the hotel guest book last month, following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/adventure-tours\/cusco-inca-trail-and-machu-picchu-4-days-3-nights\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inca Trail trek<\/a> he took with his teenage daughter to Machu Picchu.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood leading man wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/antonio_banderas_poetic_tribute_to_cusco_machu_picchu.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">a veritable ode to the Inca capital and its people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9257 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/I-am-so-taken-with-Cusco-with-Machu-Picchu-with-these-marvelous-people-Antonio-Banderas-wrote.jpg\" alt=\"I am so taken with Cusco, with Machu Picchu, with these marvelous people - Antonio Banderas wrote\" width=\"365\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/I-am-so-taken-with-Cusco-with-Machu-Picchu-with-these-marvelous-people-Antonio-Banderas-wrote.jpg 365w, https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/I-am-so-taken-with-Cusco-with-Machu-Picchu-with-these-marvelous-people-Antonio-Banderas-wrote-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Banderas had promised to return to Peru earlier this year after a visit for a charity event, and he made good.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by his 17-year-old daughter Stella Del Carmen, he visited Cusco&#8217;s main archaeological sites and participated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/cultural-festivals\/peru-folktale-trek-paucartambo-machu-picchu-beyond\/\" target=\"_blank\">the &#8220;Virgen Del Carmen\u201d\u009d festival in Paucartambo<\/a>, before setting off on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/inca-trail-tours\/\" target=\"_blank\">the four-day Inca Trail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/antonio_banderas_promised_to_come_back_to_peru_for_self-discovery.jpg\" alt=\"Antonio Banderas promised to come back to Peru for a journey of self-discovery\" width=\"495\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/antonio_banderas_promised_to_come_back_to_peru_for_self-discovery.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/antonio_banderas_promised_to_come_back_to_peru_for_self-discovery-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One comes to Peru to find himself. On the Inca Trail that is what I tried to do,&#8221; Banderas wrote in the guest book of the hotel Inkaterra La Casona, where they stayed in Cusco. &#8220;There are many friends I leave behind, or perhaps ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so taken with Cusco, with Machu Picchu, with these marvelous people,&#8221; he continued, waxing poetic. &#8220;I will come back to complete these cycles of life that I leave behind, step-by-step on this journey, which I will never forget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With much love, Antonio Banderas&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic; color: #666666;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you like this post, please remember to share on Facebook, Twitter or Google+<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish actor Antonio Banderas left more than a simple thank you note in the hotel guest book last month, following the Inca Trail trek he took with his teenage daughter to Machu Picchu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,44,8,769,27],"tags":[694,695],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-9256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cusco","category-familytravel","category-inca-trail","category-machu-picchu","category-machu-picchu-celebrity-visitors","category-news","tag-antonio-banderas","tag-celebrity-travel","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9256"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=9256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}