My day from Cuzco to Macchupicchu

After I made it to the bus station by 5:45 am this morning, I knew the day would be a success. I had to leave my big bag at my Cuzco hotel, so having packed light, I first took the bus. It was interesting seeing the totally non-tourist areas on the bus before we got on the train to Macchupicchu (lots of unleashed happy-looking dogs feeding on piles of trash!) but the Andean countryside is very beautiful. The pictures right above this part of the text are while I’m on the bus, and then other pictures from Macchupicchu.

While I’ll try and send a video of while I’m on the train, I’ve got more luck in sending pictures (and apparently being able to stand on my head, according to Al and Cathy).

After the train pulled up in Agua Calientes, I met my guide for the day, the truly lovely Fatima. She told me that there was a recent landslide that completely cut off the road and that therefore one bus would take us part away, it would stop and we would have to climb the mountain a few steps (maybe 70 or so) and then we would get on another bus for the final destination. After climbing up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down and then around at the site, we had a good buffet lunch (so how they schlep all the food and trash up and down the mountain is incomprehensible).

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There was a 3-day old llama (it’s hard to see in the picture but it is all white and some creature that appeared to be half-rabbit and half-squirrel.

My hotel is next to the same raging river in the video and I will be sleeping to the sound of its thunder. But OK, here is the confession: I can go back to Macchuopicchu tomorrow and climb up and down more and more and more, or I can take cooking lessons here at the hotel. I don’t think I need to sleep on that choice, do you?

I leave tomorrow afternoon to go back to Cuzco for the night and then on to Buenas Aires!trim.8A655D92-E765-48C9-A027-04E6E11405A3