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Published: July 16th 2008
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Well it's been a while since my last entry, and since then I've left Arequipa and travelled up to Lima ( only 15 hrs!). I spent a couple of days in Lima in a very nice suburb called Miarflores. It was nice to be at sea level, and the nightlife was good - had a good night out with a couple of English and Australian travellers.
After Lima, I travelled up to a small place called Olliantaytambo, which was quite a trek - 18hrs on a coach to Cuzco, then a 2hr local bus to Urubamba and then finally one of the local dodgy 'collectivo's'.
The reason for going that far out, was that it was the only place I could get a train up to Macchu Picchu before sometime in August!!!
The train left just after 5am, and got us up to Macchu Picchu by about 7am, a 20-min coach journey later and we were at the actual Macchu Picchu site.
It is an outstanding place, but you do feel that it now has so many tourists going there everyday, that it is difficult to appreciate it fully.Fortunately as I got up there quite early it
wasn't too packed.
After spending a few hours wandering around the ruins it was time to get the train back - a particularly annoying affair, due to having to sit with the world's most annoying family. Although we were treated to a fashion show by the train attendants, who were trying to get us to buy the Alpaca clothing they were catwalkin up and down the aisle of the train - very amusing!
Back off to Cuzco today, where I can hopefully arrange to go trekking for a few days - but who knows!
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Phil
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Good phots up there in the mountains Trev. Perhaps you bought your Mum an Alpaca jumper in all the bright colours we associate with the Incas and her wardrobe? Or are you saving on luggage volume and weight?