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Machu Picchu Slideshow
Machu Picchu
Travel Blogs from Machu Picchu, Peru
The Inca Trail and Machu Picchu
... massive amphitheatre built into the mountain. An awesome site to behold in the middle of nowhere! Being only a few km from Machu Picchu, this final campsite even included a bar and restaurant there, our first hind of civilisation since the end of day ...
Lost City of the Incas
... , beautiful, amazing and stunning sights in the world! We skipped the hike routine and did the day trip by train and bus, with 4 hours at the Machu Picchu being completely blown away and loving every minute of it. Overwhelmingly awesome!! You must ...
Dead Woman´s Pass and Birthday Cake
... Okay, seriously though I don´t want it to sound like I hated every bit or anything, but knowing what I know now when I was planning Machu Picchu I think it would be a hard decision for me to make (ie. the train or the trail). Machu Picchu is amazing ...
Grand Finale: Machu Picchu
... in the great views. We chatted with a guy, who told us that the people hiking the "orignal/ traditional inca trail" would reach Machu Picchu here and that they get their eyes covered and would be led around the corner with the inca city to their feet. ...
Trekking in the Andes to Machu Picchu
... offer a fascinating insight into traditional Andean life. Finally we made our way by train to Aguas Calientes and continue on to Machu-Picchu, the legendary Lost City of the Incas. We had plenty of time to explore this renowned and fascinating site ...
A Pilgrimage to the Sacred Valley of Machu Picchu
... . Finally, my #1 life goal destination is under my feet and in the distance. Unimaginable, unbelievable. Machu Picchu is larger than expected and the scenery is incomprehensible. The incans either planned the position of these ...
Five days to get there
... whose 3-inch wide stone waterway pointed exactly across the valley to the next mountain onto the Temple of the Sun at Machu Picchu. Really amazing. Winding further down this mountain through the forest we eventually arrived at the river, ripped off our ...
Inca Trail, Cusco, Peru
... That night it started to rain at around 3 in the morning, and by the time we got up for our final ascent into Machu Picchu it was a thunderstorm. Pretty treacherous in the dark with a 500m drop on one side. We arrived at the sun ...
Inka Jungle Trek - Day's 3&4 - Zips and Da Place!!
... told it was race to the top to be one of the first 400 so you can get your ticket for Waynipichu (the higher mountain behind Machu Pichu in all the photos). But we all realised that there was only about 100 people willing to walk up so the race aspect ...
Machu Picchu and Aguas Calientes
We woke up early to stand outside in wait for the taxi which was an hour late!!! Elias was an amazing trooper, he waited patiently without any complaints. Once the driver arrived we were so relieved especially from the cold. It turned out that the girl ...
The Lost City of something or other
... but were still fairly impressive. The trouble with ruins is that they are inherently ruined. As well preserved and expansive as Machu Picchu is, they aren´t especially different to many of the others I had visited. Except for their location. They would ...
Machu Picchu
Well i did it. I woke up at 4 am, it was pouring like crazy, and hiked my bum all the way up to Machu Picchu.....well about half way. Then I ran into this man from La Pampa, Argentina. He was in his 60´s. I was very impressed with the man. He had ...
One of the New 7 Wonders of the World
... it. This morning was sunny and clear and we could see the snow capped mountains in the distance. There really is a special feeling about Machu Picchu which can not be captured in the photos. We explored on our own for a few hours then met up with our ...
Beautiful Machu Picchu.....but what a tough hike!!
So Matt and l were off to take on the world famous Inca Trail, to South America's premier historic site, Machu Picchu! After a briefing the night before in Cusco, we were picked up from our hotel at 530am and boarded a bus with around 12 others...Aussies, ...
Day 5 - Machu Picchu at last!
... We had brought our passports with us as just left of the entrance there is an office where you can stamp your passport with a Machu Picchu stamp (yay). We were both hoping that after walking 63km that our expectations of Machu Picchu were not to high and ...
Machu Picchu!!!
Machu Picchu is an absolute highlight of our trip, it was an amazing day from start to finish - but certainly not without adventure! Machu Picchu are the worlds most famous Inca Ruins and is one of the new seven wonders of the world. The site itself ...
South America
... Kerrys birthday visiting the sacred valley sites. Last stop Ollantaytambo where we were to connect with the train to Machu Picchu. Eating out in Peru means predominately eating pizza or pasta, although I have tried Alpaca. We found a village pizzaria ...
familienbande
wir stehen - wie immer - frueh auf. nachdem wir unser fruehstueck beim rucksackpackn verbummeln, muessen wir uns ein bisschen beeilen, um unseren bus zu bekommen. und schon an der bushaltestelle treffen wir drei deutsche: anna, maike (sorry maike, ich ...
Day 1 Lares Trek-Out of breath-literally
*****Day 1: here´s the lowdown: An early morning start (6am) allows us the best possible views of our incredible mountainous surroundings, dotted with rural villages throughout. The Sacred Valley was the heart of the Inca civilization from the 14th to ...
Magnificent Machu Picchu
... Machu Picchu and why it stayed a secret for so long (Take a look here for an overview: http://www.sacredsites.com/americas/peru/machu_picchu.html). As the sun started to get brighter, the fog and clouds began to disperse, we finally started to see this ...
Sea-lions and sandboarding!
... early and sitting on buses. The day after we wrote the last entry we did an 8 hour bus ride over the border into Piura in Peru but couldn´t get any buses to take us to Trujillo so only made it another 3 hours down the road to Chiclayo, where we ...
Andiner Dschungel, 3.Tag!
Gutes Wetter, hurra! Wanderung durch Tropenlandschaft, vorbei an Passionsfrucht und Avocadobäumen; gute Gespräche mit Evi und Hans.. Wir kletterten über eine wackelige Holzbrücke über reißendem Strom... Mittagessen in Irgendwo Pampa.. (das Wort ...
The Inca City in the Clouds
... a tour to the Sacred Valley which included the Inca cities of Ollaytamtambo and Pisac. Although, these were clearly outshined by Machu Picchu, they were interesting in their own rights. In fact, Ollaytamtambo was where the Inca actually were ...
Magnificent Machu Picchu!
I hardly slept as I was so excited about visiting Machu Picchu, and in any case I got up at 4.30am anyway so it didn't leave much time to rest. Buses transport the many hundreds of tourists (up to 2,500 per day) up the zig-zag hill to the MP ...
Hiking the Inka Trail and Machu Picchu
... , gaurdhouses, temples, sundials, parks etc. ... and HEAPS of steps! Was just beautiful. So that was Machu Picchu. The only pre-planned activity of our whole time in south america. And wholly worth ...
Finally made it!!
... place up here also. I don’t know how the Inca’s climbed up here and built what they did. The view of Machu Picchu is a complete different shape from this angle and it doesn’t really look like it’s that far away in the photos ...
Le Camino Inca et Machu Picchu
Après une nuit froide et humide au charmant village d´Ollantaytambo où nous avons rencontrer une autre équipe de Karavaniers, nous sommes prêts pour le Chemin de ...
Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
... they cooked. Day 4: Today we woke up at 4am so that was we could get to the sun gate early and then to Machu Picchu. Everyone walked quickly that morning. I dont know if we were really excited or what. We arrived at the sun ...