Cusco and Machu Picchu

Amazing, so cool that you got to climb the big rock at the back!! Seriously better than our trip...check this out, worth walking for 3 days to see this at the sungate, no? http://nina.smugmug.com/Holidays/South-America/Peru-again/458508_RWxKU#147159850_BMYwx

Reminiscences of Machu Picchu
I went to a conference in Lima some 20 years ago, and your blog brought it all back. I was there for two weeks, and went to Cusco the first weekend, and, as you say, the lack of oxygen certainly held you back. I certainly got the bus up the mountain, and was amazed, like everyone, with MP. On the return bus down the mountain some boys raced down, appearing like magic at each bend, and at the bottom appeared smiling, with, of course, their hand held out. On the Monday morning a week later the four speakers gathered in the conference room with the chairman, expecting to run a session. But nobody else appeared. Every single person had gone to up Cusco for thew weekend, but the weather had stopped all flying back on Sunday. The chairman wanted to cancel, but the speakers refused, so we each spoke to an audience of three! Lovely place. Lots of love C xxx