Blogs from Machu Picchu, Cusco, Peru, South America - page 85

Absolutley Spectacular 8 day hike from Cachora to Machu Picchu, passing through another important Incan site called Choquequirao. 6 gringos, 1 guide, 2 cooks, 5 mules, 1 horseman, 1 horsemans son, and 1 SHEEP HEAD!! Es Bueno!! Day 1 Cachora to Raqrama. Day 2 Raqrama to Choquequirao. Day 3 Choquequirao to Maizal. Day 4 Maizal to Yanama. Day 5 Yanama to Tatora. Day 6 Tatora to Playa. Day 7 Playa to Puente Ruinas. Day 8 Machu Picchu.... read more

this is a try to post some photos from our machu picchu trip. ... read more

Yesterday´s trip to Machu Picchu and climb up Huayna Picchu was really just an optional extra. But I could not just hang around in Aguas Calientes when Machu Picchu was only half an hour away on a bus. Today the tour group got up early to catch a bus from Agaus Calientes to Machu Picchu to get there before the people on day trips from Cuzco. Got to Machu Picchu about 7am, and most of us walked up to the Sun Gate to get the classic postcard views of Machu Picchu. About the same height as Huayna Picchu but certainly not as steep. The path to the Sun Gate is the one that people walking the Inca Trail come down to Machu Picchu after thier four day trek. Saw a few of them coming down as ... read more

I returned yesterday from my 4 day hike along the Inca Trail, finishing at the highlight of the trip so far, Machu Picchu. I have 1 more night here in Cusco before heading to Puno and seeing what Lake Titicaca has to offer. But first, back to the big MP. I began the hike at Kilometre 82. The first day along the trail was a relatively easy 12km and we arrived into camp at around 4pm. The terrain was quite flat and we stopped at a couple of ruins along the way, just to get us in the mood for what we would be seeing on day 4. The hardest part of the first day wasn't coping with the altitude or the uphill parts of the trail. Instead it was avoiding the significant amounts of donkey ... read more

Well... Dave´s birthday... now what can I do to make sure that he remembers it for the rest of his life?? I think that a trip to the ancient city hidden in the cloud forests of peru should just about do it! Machu picchu (MP) for the non ancient peruvian historians amongst you, is an old Incan city... think that dave has told you who the incans were already! Anyway for some strange reason it was not "discovered" until the 1910s. Maybe that is because it is surrounded by unassailable mountainous andean cloud forests (called such because they are so high that they are constantly in the clouds!!) If you have seen pictures of south america then you would have seen pictures of mp... which is a good thing as we still cannot upload our pictures!! ... read more