Sorry it has taken so long to get our blog up. I received an email last Sunday as we were leaving for Cusco from Lima saying there was going to be a worker´s strike and our train tickets to Machu Picchu for Tuesday and Wednesday were cancelled. So we went into panic mode. So arriving at the hotel in Cusco about 6pm we talked with our taxi and decided to get up at 2:30 the next morning and drive through the mountains to Ollantaytambo to the train station to get there as it opened the next morning at 6am. After fighting with PeruRail Erika successfully secured tickets to Machu Picchu and return to Cusco the same day. The train was not running Tuesday and Wednesday at all so we had to get a ticket back Monday
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