Machu Picchu
Trip Start
Mar 07, 2008
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Trip End
Jun 14, 2008
Machu Picchu,
Sacred Valley,
Peru
Friday, April 18, 2008
We arrived in Aguas Calientes (still walking) very tired and sour from all this trekking. We were a ver good and united group (Chris, Bea, Christine Eder the guide Nick and me) it heps to have good friends around when you are moaning cos your small legs cannot take anymore!.
Aguas calientes looks like a mountain village.
Our super guide was so proud of us and liked us so much that he took us to a special spot where you can see Machu Pichu from the opposite side...but I now realise that Nick probably talked about this in the last blog entry...anyway I want to say that the climb of this mountain was very very hard and i did it we did it!
Next day, the climb (another one) to Machu Picchu
The road to MP
. I did not go, I confess I took the bus - have you checked the road???- no way I could do it, I could hardly climb my bed to go to sleep. So the guys and Bea left at 4.30am to arrive on top of Machu Picchu at 6.am when I was waiting for them at the top. A big well done to them because it was very difficult and very few people did it! We were all in the bus exchanging excuses for why we were not climbing in the cold and dark : mine was " I did Potossi yesterday and at the top I had to fight with a Puma who attacked the group so I am a bit tired!":-) others were "I did the Inca camino trail on one foot so a bit tired too!"... but nobody would say they were just too tired ha ha!
Then we entered the site at 6.30 and it was fantastic, it is beautiful as you may imagine and very spiritual. I cannot believe that it is so ancient, it looks like it is done on purpose for tourists!
we spent 3 hours of visit with a guide we left and got a stamp (un tampon) maravilla del mundo on our passport! that´s cool!
In the afternoon, we left to go to Holyamtatantbou - something like that- where more ruins where to visit and in the evening we took a bus back to Cusco
Surviving Machu Picchu´s climb
.Very tired after all this trekking but it was worth it!
Later In Cusco our group met again to have drinks and go out clubbing! It never stopped! But we had the occasion to offer drinks to our guide who made this trekk very easy and nice!
The only scar I keep now is the 100 piqures de moustiques from the jungle that hitch me so bad that I scrathed most of them till blood - I wanted to share that because climbing is already difficult for me so imagine climbing and scratching!
Anyway next stop on the blog will be the Titi kaka lake, where I hope it is flat like Hollande (pleease!!)
Cheers!
Comments
Inca rtade
Grandiose ,le coeur de l'empire Incas, mais que reste t'il de cette civilisation precolombienne !
Pour un temps, vous etes les fils du Soleil,et l'accés se mérite.
Bye bye, @+
Dad
Inca rtade
Grandiose ,le coeur de l'empire Incas, mais que reste t'il de cette civilisation precolombienne !
Pour un temps, vous etes les fils du Soleil,et l'accés se mérite.
Bye bye, @+
Dad
GRANDIOSE...
Je suis sans voix et mes yeux s'illuminent et le temps s'arrête c'est grandiose, magique, lumineux, irréel, j'adore, j'adore et je me plais à penser que vous avez véçu tous ensemble ce moment magique tant attendu et si gratifiant ; il est vrai que vous l'avez bien mérité et 'avec grand soleil' en prime ce qui n'est pas rien car votre randonnée c'était pas du gâteau et bichoune et ben je trouve 'qu'elle tient bien la route' et qu'elle est à la hauteur ..... DU MACHU PICCHU BISOUS LES ENFANTS !