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Machu Picchu Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Machu Picchu, Peru
Day 3 of Trek
This is a top pick! ... our tickets and due to her foot injury, she just made it with 10 seconds to spare. To say the least, my guide Jose and I were very nervous. I couldnŽt have imagined missing Machu Pichu. Tonight I have my own room at a hotel here in Agua ...
Day 2 of Trek
This is a top pick! Photos for day 2 will be posted to this entry. I slept relatively well in my tent last night... about 6 hours all up but kept sliding off the slippery inflatable matress. Today was hard... we walked for 8 hours, mostly uphill to a pass of 5000m ...
The Inca Tinker Tailor Trail
This is a top pick! ... Inca path. The trail passes many Inca ruins, climbs three peaks and finishes at the ancient Inca city known as Machu Picchu. It was the grand finale to Dans Peru trip. DAY 1 On Friday morning at 6:15 we set off on the bus for a two hour drive to the ...
Upstairs, Downstairs
This is a top pick! ... all the other tour groups in time to see the sun rise but again it was too misty, so we continued our trek down to Machu Picchu itself. That report will be along soon, as I'm now off to learn the entire Beatles catalogue on my panpipes which every shop ...
Machu Fucking Picchu...
This is a top pick! ... 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 1 Trip to the Clouds and Back
This is a top pick! IŽm writing this from Agua Calientes... a beautiful town situated at the base of Machu Pichu. Just a short note to let everyone know that I have made it... a trek to the clouds at 5km above sea level and back to around the 3km mark. To say the least, ...
Lines from outer space, Pisco and a landslide!
This is a top pick! ... my sense of humour but am seriously considering flying back to Lima! So, this afternoon I am going to organize my way to Machu Picchu and have a look around Cuzco, as well as dodging the ever present touts and hawkers...... Also pictures of the last ...
Day Three of the Inca Trail - Nearly There!!
This is a top pick! ... 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. ...
Spectacular Machu Picchu
This is a top pick! ... than his PSP….go figure. Aquas Caliente is a small town which was built to accommodate the thousands of tourists that visit Machu Picchu. During high season, between June thru August, it can reach as high as 2000 tourists per day!!! ...
Lares Trail Itinerary
This is a top pick! ... will have a guided tour of this fascinating place, and even the opportunity to climb Wayna Picchu, providing the chance to see Machu Picchu and the surroundings from a more exclusive vantage point. After a full day of exploring, we head back to Cuzco ...
Hey Mr Paddington Bear!
This is a top pick! ... 's 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 ...
Mysterious Cities of Gold
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
sand flies
This is a top pick! so i made it to peru, and caught the train up to macchu picchu, it was amazing having seen it so many times on film to see it with my own eyes.. i thought MP was overrated until i got there, a big highlight in my travels the place is almost magical.. i ...
Birthday at Machu Poncho !!!
This is a top pick! ... we finally arrived at the hostel to say we were exhausted stressed and grumpy was an understatement - you can book the tickets to Machu Picchu on Peru Rail website but our card wasnt working and we MUST get on the train the next day or we wouldn't m ake ...
Machu Picchu
This is a top pick! ... idea 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 ...
Cusco and Machu Picchu
This is a top pick! ... , we also found a Catalan owned restaurant selling delightful Pa amb Tomaquet and Tortilla de Patatas. Show us the Way to Machu Picchu After a good 5 days chilling out in Cusco, we teamed up with another Spanish-Celtic couple who we first met in ...
The climax of our trek - not disappointed!
This is a top pick! 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 ...
In the footsteps of the ancients
This is a top pick! ... the top, the view was incredible - the rainforest stretching out below us, with dense vegetation everywhere. I began to understand how Machu Picchu had stayed hidden for so long, and why many people feel there are probably lots of other inca cities ...
Day one of the Inca Trek
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Meditating in Machu Picchu and the jungle below
This is a top pick! Meditating in Machu Picchu and the jungle ...
Cuzco and Machu Picchu
This is a top pick! ... and a taxi ride back to Cuzco, then to Poroy. From Poroy, a train through the Sacred Valley to Aguas Calientes. Finally a bus to Machu Picchu. There was nothing better than every second of the journey. I got back to Poroy and Yudy was waiting in the train ...
Machu Picchu
This is a top pick! ... the 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 ...
Cleansing the spirit, the Inca way
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Day Four -- Money Shot!
This is a top pick! ... above 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 ...
Day Two of the Inca Trail - The Hardest Day!!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Machu Picchu... The Daddy
This is a top pick! ... The 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 ...
Reinforcements
This is a top pick! ... . She is convinced she will be sharing clothes with Kia all week. Tomorrow morning at dawn we set out to hike the Inka trail to Machu Picchu. It turns out that this will be a bit of a challenge. The trail starts at 8000 feet and climbs to 14,000 ...
No more stairs!
This is a top pick! 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 ...
The Only Way Is Up!
This is a top pick! ... been a hint to what was to come... (Note: Huanapicchu is the mountain in the background of the classic Machu Picchu picture – a cone like mountain.) The cloud still down the challenge of Huanapicchu was obscured, so in naivety we set ...