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Published: March 28th 2008
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When we arrived to Cusco we find out that there is a strike next day. Everything was closed, no busses, no trains, no taxis. So we had to rest for one day. We bought train tickets to Aguas Calientes (gateway to Machu Picchu) next day and took local bus to Pisaq. Pisaq is nice small town with large Inca ruins. Amazing how they could built it over there, high on the tops of the hills. We headed to Ollaytaytambo next day. We stopped to visit salt plains and circle terraces. There are another ruins in Ollaytaytambo and from here we took train to Aguas Calientes. Aguas Calientes is small, touristic, thermal town. We arrived there early in the morning. It was not high season here. So lady at the station which was looking for some tourist offered us nice room and accepted our price - good deal 😊 We just left our staff at the reception and hurried up to Machu Picchu. It was nice wheather so we better took bus up there to be there soon, until wheather is nice and there is not so much people. It was very nice place, really amazing location 😊 It
is not so large as we thought. There was not as much tourist as we were afraid could be. We spent there quite a long time enjoying this place. But coming storm sent us back down. Our way back from Machu Picchu to Cusco was the same - train and local buses. We just burnt pictures in internet cafe and then took backpacks from our hostel and travelled to Arequipa by overnight bus.
Cusco nas prekvapilo hned na privitanie tym, ze nasledujuci den je strajk a nebude sa dat ist do ziadneho muzea, ani autobusy nebudu premavat ani vlak ani nic. Tak sme mali nuteny volny den, ktory sme vyuzili internetovanim vo vecernych hodinach, ked uz bolo po strajku a ziskuchtivy peruanci otvorili opat svoje obchodiky 😊 Dalsi den sme si potom kupili super drahe listky na vlak do Aguas Calientes, co je zastavka pod Machu Picchu a miestnym autobusom sme docestovali do mestecka Pisaq. Tu sme si pozreli dost velke incke ruiny, kopec terasovitych policok, par domov, nejaka ta studanka... ach ta incka romantika 😊 Zaroven sme videli velmi peknych kolibrikov, co som si teda nikdy v zivote nemyslel ze uvidim. Ked som ho sem tam videl v
TV, tak som si vravel, tak tohto nikdy na zivo neuvidim. Ale hned ako som ho videl som ho spoznal 😊 Je to velmi pekny vtacik. A lieta tak rychlo, ze fotak nestihal. Par zaberov som predsa len spravil (rozumej dva 😊 aj ked neostre. Prejst ruiny v Pisaqu nam trvalo asi tri hodiny, je to velmi rozlahle a skonstatoval som, ze inkovia v tych vyskach nemali co na pracu, tak len stavali policka - co je na tych podpornych stenach kamenov, tak to muselo trvat vecnost to vsetko nazvlacat a postavit z toho steny proti zosuvu pody. V Pisaqu sme aj prespali a dalsi den sme sa so zastavkami na solne policka a kruhove tereasy presunuli do mestecka Ollaytaytambo, co znie skor ako meno pre slona. Cestou sme si dali kukuricu, ktora ma zrna asi 4x vacsie ako ta nasa, tak sme sa z nej dobre najedli. V Ollaytaytambo su tiez ruiny, ale mensie, asi tak na tristvrte hodinku. Potom prisla burka. Dasli den rano sme sa po par tazkostiach dostali von z hostela a nieco po piatej sme nasadali na vlak do Aguas Calientes (v preklade Teple Vody), tam sme boli za cca. 2 hodinky a cestou sme
videli kopec dalsich terasovitych policok v blizkosti trate. Po prichode nas hned odchytila teta z hostela a nechala nas povedat si cenu, ktoru chceme zaplatit za izbu, tak sme mali izbu v paradnom hoteli za nasu cenu. V tomto obdobi su radi za kazdeho zakaznika. A kedze bolo pekne pocasie, tak sme sa hned vyviezli hore k Machu Picchu, ktore ako sme zistili vobec nie je az take velke ako sme mysleli a ako to na fotkach vyzera - tak na dve hodinky. Prijemnym prekvapenim bolo, ze tam nebola hlava na hlave ako sme cakali, ale dalo sa vcelku dobre chodit a pozerat bez nejakeho vyrusovania. Areal je pekny, upraveny, vsetko ako zo skatulky, lamy maju ofinku ucesanu na cesticku a ked zuju travu tak len so zatvorenymi ustami. Dobry je pohlad dole do cca. 900 metrovej hlbky na rieku, ktora tecie dole - nuz, vyhlad mali ti Inkovia pekny, to treba uznat.
V ramci treningu sme este vysli na kopec Wayna Picchu, ktory je priamo nad hlavnym arealom a na ktorom su tiez terasovite policka a domy a schodiska a tam je to uz poriadna vyska. Napriek tomu ake je to drahe a nadmerne turisticke, tak sa nam Machu
Picchu vcelku pacilo.
Cesta spat do Cusca prebiehala rovnako s tym, ze sme vystupili asi 8 km pred nim a prechadzkou veducou az do Cusca sme navstivili dalsie 4 male archeologicke lokality. Najlepsou bola asi stena z obrovskych balvanov opracovanych tak, ze do seba presne zapadali. A ked vravim presne, tak tym myslim presne, lebo som to videl. V Cuscu sme si kupili listok na nocny spoj do Arequipy, vybrali si z uschovne velke batohy (celu cestu sme absolvovali len s malymi a boli sme radi, lebo v miestnych spojoch bolo vzdy narvano), napalili DVD s fotkami a hura na juh.
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