A tissue, A tissue, Machu Picchu

Well, we made it to Machu Picchu (actually pronounced Pick-chew in case you were wondering). We had an interesting train ride down from Cuzco to here including an "oh my god he´s a terrorist" moment when the Italian lad sitting in the seat across from us reading a manual on flight navigation had just had a telephone conversation with his family saying "today´s the day" asked us to look after his bag and proceeded to disappear to the toilet for a very, very long time....

He came back and actually turned out to be a nice guy who we had a fairly long conversation with along with the people around us. It ended up with him talking in Italian to another Italian guy across the isle. That guy´s girlfriend was from Peru and ended up talking in Spanish to the Brazillian lady sitting across from us! We didn´t understand a word, but they seemed like good conversations.

At Aguas Calientes we spent a down day going to the hot springs, eating and drinking doing a mini pub crawl on the hill down from the hot springs. It was interesting when we had to meet our tour guide that night after quite a few...

Machu Picchu House

Machu Picchu is simply awesome. The ruin site is huge and we spent more than 8 hours walking around the ruins, sitting on a terrace taking it in and Andy climbed a small mountain to get a different view. Why anyone would build such a large complex so high up a mountain and so far down a valley in the middle of nowhere is still lost on us, but its a very cool place. The stonework wasn´t as impressive as some other sites we have visited but the setting and the sheer size of the place more than makes up for it.

Machu Picchu Street

2 Aussies on top of a mountain

The train ride back to Cuzco wasn´t nearly as interesting as the ride out and we were absolutely knackered after getting up at 5am to get up to Machu Picchu for a 6:25 tour.

written by

Cath & Andy on April 21, 2007 from Aguas Calientes, Peru

from the travel blog: A journey to the alter and South America

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