Woke up early to catch the bus up to the city on the hill. Like 4:30 am early :)! Machu Pichu was amazingly amazing. I wasn't sure what to expect but the mortar-less city was exceedingly more than i thought. The city was believed to be constructed in only 33 years. what? After a quick tour Franco had to leave and catch his train and we were free to roam around and explore the city of stone. We had a lot of fun, avoiding the shrill whistles of the watchful guards that didn't appreciate climbing on the walls. After a healthy amount of goofing off with the surrounding we split up. I left Karina and Jeff to go hike up the Wannapichu Temple. And what a hike it was: 45 minutes later sweating and holding on to the smooth steps tightly I was at the top. Unfortunately the apex is also the home of flying (stinging) ants. awesome. So i snapped a few pics and hopped around the rest of the temple enjoying the 360 view before carefully making my way back down. The three of us hopped back on a bus as the rain started to come down again :) We quickly made our way back to the train station waiting for the train. After some slight confusion as to whether or not we missed our train it pulled into the station and we headed back towards cusco.
We spent our last night in Cusco out on the town, enjoying the sights and fine dining. yum.
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we're lama's... get it?
taking a nap
I love the pictures, but where's the words??? Really do love so many of the pictures. Hope your trip is wonderful. luv mom
ReplyDeleteNate this looks like a trip of a life time. You make me wish i was your age and going on some sort of adventure of my own. Your pictures inspire me to some day take a trip of this sort of my own. The surfing,treaking and driving in diffrent countrys sounds so fun. Iam sorry to see the death of the green monster,good thing you and your mom could walk out of there. Looking forward to here some more of your stories.Be good and enjoy the rest of your trip. Jim S.
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