Machu Picchu, Peru Travel Blogs

A million steps to the city in the clouds...
May 28, 2007 (23 photos)

... four years ago and the highlight of the trip was doing a two-day hike to visit spectacular Incan city of Machu Picchu. It remains an absolute must when visiting Peru (or South America!) so of course we put it on our itinerary. The city is deep in the ...

Mystical Machu Picchu
Sep 10, 2008 (42 photos)

9am and the same driver picked us up at our hotel in Cusco - back thru the Sacred Valley to Ollyantambo to meet up with the group who had done the Lares Trek.  Driving thru the valley again was no hardship that's for sure as in the early morning ...

Walking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
Nov 25, 2006 (30 photos)

... farming terraces, located on the banks of the Rio Cusichaca river. It was an amazing sight and really got us excited about seeing Machu Picchu. Day two started early at 05:30 with a hot drink for those who wanted one. They drink coca tea here which ...

Salkantay trek: The march to Machu Picchu -
Aug 13, 2005 (24 photos)

... the distance. We had seen the famous postcard view so many times; it was really hard to believe we were finally here. Machu Picchu was only discovered accidentally in 1911 by an American archaeologist. What a sight that must have been for him even if ...

Leaving Machu Picchu
Mar 20, 2005 (2 photos)

So we spent an amazing two days at Machu Picchu. Our train left back to Cusco at 4 p.m., so we just spent the day wandering around Aguas Calientes and feeling sorry for ourselves. It was really tough leaving this place. I know that I may return one day, ...

the lost city is found again...
Jan 14, 2008 (77 photos)

... the Urubamba, with its dramatic rushing waters, keeps me fully entertained...and we finally arrive at Aguas Calientes, at the base of Machu Picchu, where all visitors must stop to regroup before paying homage.   And I have to admit, I feel some ...

A magical place.
Sep 11, 2005 (37 photos)

... place I haven't been to before, and I also end up revisiting Sacsayhuaman (sexy woman) and the other ruins around Cuzco, as well as Machu Picchu (yes, my travel plans kind of change on a day by day basis, or from blog entry to blog entry). Once again I ...

The lost city of the Incas
Feb 16, 2006 (16 photos)

... lots of others up too - did you notice?!). So, I had a couple of days in Cuzco before I could get the train towards Machu Picchu. After I got over the long bus journey, I had a look round the town and booked my train tickets (there's no road all the ...

Hey Mr Paddington Bear!
Feb 24, 2008 (36 photos)

... spirit may have been one of the advisers to design some of the sacred areas!    Visiting Machu Picchu has been a life long dream of mine. It is difficult to describe how it felt to see the clouds open up like the ...

Machu Picchu - We Finally Made It!
Apr 14, 2004 (9 photos)

... her pass to climb the ruins in the town (she had a bad back) and I took some photos for her. The ruins at Machu Picchu are the final ones in a succession of lesser known Inca ruins which are scattered throughout the 'Sacred Valley'. The scenery from the ...

Day Three of the Inca Trail - Nearly There!!
Mar 11, 2009 (30 photos)

... The third and final site of the day was at Phuyupatamarca (3640 metres above sea level). This was definitely our favourite site (besides Machu Picchu of course). We spent quite a lot of time here as the clouds kept lifting and giving us some great views. ...

Things that have made me go 'Wow!' - Part 27
Sep 3, 2004 (10 photos)

... cleared to give us the first proper view of Machu Picchu. Two months ago the most famous thing I knew about Peru was Paddington Bear. I'd heard of Machu Picchu of course, but had no real idea what it was, but having walked the walk and learning the history ...

The Machu of all Picchus
Aug 17, 2006 (2 photos)

... in the foreground and Huayna Picchu {the mountain looming behind the ruins in all the photos} in the background. Experiencing Machu Picchu Although the number of tourists were already copious, our "Average Joe" team of trail survivors battled for ...

Machu Picchu at Last !!!!
Aug 7, 2008 (11 photos)

... ;   Today is probably one of the best travel day in my life since I am in the most amazing place on Earth- Machu Picchu !!!        I went to bed around 12 am last night was waking by this pouring rain ...

Machu Picchu
Nov 28, 2006 (22 photos)

... deserted. After getting our fill of ruins we caught the bus down the windiest road ever to the nearest town Aguas Calientes (aka Machu Picchu Pueblo) for some food and to meet up with our group for the last time. Although we had only know each other ...

Better Than I Expected
Mar 18, 2005 (17 photos)

... touristy, and for Peru it's extremely expensive. And there are entirely too many people speaking English. 1,000 people a day visit Machu Picchu, mostly westerners. You can forget that you're abroad. But just for a moment. Once you start exploring your ...

Walk like an Inca, sleep in a puddle
Jan 16, 2006 (8 photos)

... government seems to have mislaid the priceless obelisk. And artefacts found at the site by Hiram Bingham, the explorer who rediscovered Machu Picchu in 1911, are gathering dust in boxes at Yale University, as there is no local facility for displaying them. ...

Machu Fucking Picchu...
Dec 15, 2006 (59 photos)

... the hell is that?  How do I get there?'  The first questions were easily answered by the poster's caption:  'Machu Picchu, Peru'.  Many years on, now enlightened, I can share the answer to the third.  Get the bus.  Not ...

Day one of the Inca Trek
Mar 9, 2009 (22 photos)

... Km 82, via Chinchero, Ollantaytambo. After joining the rest of the team we begin our trekking tour along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. We will head towards our first camp at Wayllabamba, on the way we will have a good view of the archaeological complex ...

The climax of our trek - not disappointed!
Sep 19, 2006 (15 photos)

Up at 4am and have breakfast before we leave at 4.30 for our walk uphill and lots of steps with Roberto to Machu Picchu. Is quite difficult and I am pretty slow but we make it for opening time at 6am. Quite a few tourists are there having walked up and ...

Cusco and Machu Picchu
Oct 22, 2006 (20 photos)

... couple who we first met in Colombia, Vanina and Billy, to visit what is probably the most famous tourist site in South America, Machu Picchu. We almost died of shock when we went to the train station to inquire about prices to get there. Really, if you ...

Mysterious Cities of Gold
Oct 13, 2006 (61 photos)

... to Aguas Calientes. This is probably the weirdest town I have ever stayed in, it has no roads (except for the one up to Machu Picchu)and is only accessible by the train. The town is just a tourist stop, but set in a spectacular valley, surrounded by huge ...

Machu Picchu
Aug 2, 2007 (40 photos)

... that a city lay underneath the jungle. Lucky really because they destroyed most of the other Inca settlements, a reason why today Machu Picchu is so important. We walked around the ruins, up and down the steep Inca stairways, across the plazas and in ...

Machu Picchu
Sep 26, 2006 (25 photos)

... following information on Machu Picchu: General Information on Machu Picchu, downloaded from http://www.sacredsites.com/americas/peru/machu_picchu.html The ruins of Machu Picchu, rediscovered in 1911 by Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham, are one of ...

Day Two of the Inca Trail - The Hardest Day!!
Mar 10, 2009 (29 photos)

... underwear!! Either way, it wasn't to be seen again! By this stage it was now becoming obvious why the Spanish didn't find Machu Picchu - they probably just couldn't be arsed to go any further!! And rightly so. Ah well, it gives us backpackers something ...

Meditating in Machu Picchu and the jungle below
May 18, 2008 (26 photos)

Meditating in Machu Picchu and the jungle below

Day Four -- Money Shot!
Oct 17, 2004 (6 photos)

... us. I scrambled up with using my hands and feet ! At last we reached our goal and watched the sun rising over Machu Picchu, a rather spectacular site from Intipunku (the sun gate). Our group all looked around at each other with smiles and a sense of ...

Cleansing the spirit, the Inca way
Dec 9, 2008 (67 photos)

... operators down to just a few and all we had to decide was if we were going to take the well travelled Inca Trail to Machu Picchu or the lesser travelled but more cultural Lares Valley trek, which also ended at Machu Picchu.   Price for us, like ...

Machu Picchu... The Daddy
Apr 26, 2006 (12 photos)

... track just kept of going uphill with no sign of stopping, once I decided I was high enough I stopped and sat watching Machu Picchu from a pretty decent vantage point. Surprisingly enough there wasnŽt anyone else up here either! I found out later that this ...

No more stairs!
Apr 11, 2003 (5 photos)

After a couple of days of resting in Cusco we managed to get traintickets to Aguas Calientes, from where weŽd visit Machu Picchu. The trainjourney itself was quite uneventful, but led us from the green valleys round Cusco to the subtropical jungle of Aguas ...