Jardin Real Hotel Aguas Calientes

... of money that was going to be wasted, we nonetheless decided to grab the train. Agua Calientes is really not a fantastic town. Got back to Cusco around 21h, got to the hotel and WENT TO BED. Soaked, tired, ruined but full of crazy memories we drifted into a deep sleep.



Mercredi 2 Décembre

Apres un voyage difficile en bus (colliques a 3h du mat´. Oh joie! et vive Immodium), je passe la matinée au lit. Les deux autres ...

... not sure what that was all about. the bus terminal in cuzco at 4:30 is just as annoying as another time, i imagine. maybe even more so since you just woke up from a few hours of awful sleep. you walk through the gate and are immediately bombarded by "taxi! hostal! my friend, i can take you... very cheap". we catch a taxi to one of the train stations and get scammed on the price, some sort of inverse earlybird special, i suppose. we sit outside the tren ...

... MP. 4 beers the good I was leathered - just simply due to lack of sleep, over exertion, altitude and probably lack of water on that partic day. It was a good night, but finished off by me sustaining my 1st injury of the trip - ripping my toe open after smashing it into a rock. Dazza, Hitch and Lumers will not be surprised my injury went through to the bone and could well have been fatal iwere it not for my swift and decisive action - got the plasters and germolene out tut suite! 5 ...

... seats taken, whereas there wasn't a soul in the wagon in front of us. We stopped quite often on the way as we had to wait for other trains to pass us from the opposite direction. Sometimes they passed on the left, sometimes on the right side. I even saw the passing of the prestigious Hiram Bingham, where the interior is classical and very much like the old Orient Express. Only a handful of people were on board. Suppose that with a price of USD 334 it is not suited for every ...

... 12.30 p.m. Ulf gave up and went to sleep, I went to Putucusi. What a mountain. There are 30 to 40 feet of shere drop on a ladder and I went up it in the rain.I can honestly say that this is the most scared I have felt in my life! But it was also the best thing that I have done. No one up there just me and a dog of which could not get down, and I do not think I want to talk about how he tried to follow me down!!!!!

... like a Disney-style water fountain park. It was really impressive and we got to meet up with about a group of 15 of us. We also managed to strategically organize a quick "Where the hell is Matt" dance sequence in the park. We had a few more in different parts of Peru, but this one had kids involved so it made it extremely special and enjoyable. If you don't know about "Where the hell is Matt" just go on youtube and type that in and take a look.

Well, I ...

... en werkte dus op iedereen hun zenuwen. Eens aangekomen in La Playa, onze kampeerplaats, zagen we al vlug dat het nogal een armoedig plaatsje was. Daar zijn we de eerste kraan in 3 dagen tegengekomen, het was hoog tijd om de wilde haren eens te wassen. Tot groot geluk van Astrid. ;-) Daarna zijn we wat mondvoorraad voor de dag erna en bier voor de avond gaan inslaan. Dit tegen een echt toeristenprijsje, ze slaan er toch wel een slag in. Onze gids en de heer des huizes (een ...

... very quickly that if we were going to get to Agua Caliente, at the base of Machu Picchu, today we had to get our skates on. The cheap train to Agua Caliente left Ollantaytambo at 12:30 and it would take about 2 hours to get to Ollantaytambo. I had not yet purchased tickets which I needed to do on-line and print them out. In the mean-time Christie had to get back to our bags and make a couple of condensed bags for two days, so off she went whilst Jody and Niamh played with ...

... Argentina (the one with the leather seats which folded into a bed and a waiter serving proper meals) we though they would all be like that but were in for a shock. It was like a Johnson brothers school bus from 1970 with a few more seats crammed in for good measure. Just to make things a bit worse, we were sat next to the toilet which had a monster living in it...and we had a 22hour journey ahead of us!

Saying no more about that bus ...

... dass sie nicht läng** auf ihren v**dienten Schlaf warten wollten und v**schwanden in ihren Zelten.

3. Tag: Challway - Santa T**esa

Dies** Tag war von allen d** anstrengendste; es ging imm** nur b**gab (manchmal kurz hinauf) und die feuchte Hitze machte einem zu schaffen. Wir sind wied** früh morgens aufgestanden; diesmal noch härt**es Brot und noch mehr Haf**brei mit Pulv**milch. Nun schlängelte sich d** Weg in kleinen ...