Albergue Kapuly Ollantaytambo

... actually was quite interesting.

We arrived in the town of Ollantaytambo which is the jumping off point for the Inca Trail. Place is a mad house of mini vans and buses trying to negotiate narrow unpaved roads - chaos!! There´s also some Inca ruins which we explored.

Next day was another early rise for the start of the trail so early to bed!!

... down the aisle. Then they had a fashion show with a couple people wearing clothes made from alpaca. I guess that's what you get for taking the more expensive train home (the backpacker trains were sold out). Took a cab back to Cusco and passed out!
The next morning we had to leave Cusco (tear) and fly back to Lima for our 12 hour layover. Lima was just as polluted and grey as we remembered it. Walked to Larcomar for coffee and ...

... br>That's about it.
Oh, and we took alot of pictures of Llamas that were roaming around the place... I even pet a few of them....

After we were finished with touring the site, we went out and got our passports stamped (cool indentation btw). Then we went down to Aguas Callientes by bus, and at noon we got on the train to Hydroelectrico, where we got on the van and made the same way back to Cusco.

... o funcionamento do lugar, que se chama Asociasión Casa del Águila. Sao 56 crianças vivendo no orfanato, que é dividido em 7 casas, onde vivem com "pais substitutos", um sistema que achei muito interessante, pois assim eles vivem em pequenas famílias: pais e irmaos.
O colégio, que se chama Rio Blanco possui quase 200 alunos, onde estudam as crianças do Hogar e outras crianças da comunidade. Alguns têm que caminhar até 3 horas para chegar ao colégio!
Há também uma clínica m ...

... on va au source chaude (agua calientes) pour un petit bain de souffre. ca put mais ca detend.

repas au resto degustation de plat locaux Alpaga et truite. vraiment trop cher et pourtant nous etions còte non touriste.

retour a l'hotel, nous essayons de dormir mais la boite de nuit d'a cote fait trop de bruit et en + on doit se lever a 4h30 pour le Machu Picchu.

... hopefully be easier to find a computer. Talk to you soon.

Random (annoying) item of the day: We rode the train from Ollantaytabmbo to Aguas Calientes yesterday morning. It is the only way to come to Machu Picchu unless you hike the Inca Trail. We were lucky enough to be in the 2 seats in the front of the train so we had great views the entire trip of the mountains and the river. Only problem? Some dude sitting a ...

... to Macchupicchu),but by then, I lost a few things already: my cellphone, toiletries, and some equipment! I´m gald the town had an internet connection. So, I finished my hike up the mountain with a few items short, but man, was it worth it!

I hopped on a flight last night to go to Uruguay (with a stopover in Buenos Aires). Out of all the things I could have gotten food poisioning over, it turned out to be the airline food ...

... better in "real life". It is and felt like we had just arrived at a mystical place. Even though the gates had just opened to the public, there were already a large group waiting in line to enter. A lady was already waiting for us there to give a walking tour in English. The conquering Spaniards never knew about Machu Picchu and was only discovered by the outside world at the beginning to the 20th century, although the local population must ...

... I would have gone there on my own and stayed overnight. But we were there only for a couple of hours, enough time to walk through a bit of the town which is made of many narrow cobblestone streets lined with good on sale for the tourists; and to visit the massive Inca fort which overlooks the local market in town. The fort is actually one of the few places where the Spanish lost a major battle by the Incas. A very steep flight of steps led up to the ruins ...