subject: Travel To Machu Picchu In Peru [print this page] The bus from Palma to Andes turned out to be quite eventful. The first was small enough for a bulldozer to make a single lane path. But the second washout had literally taken away 30 meters of road leaving a gaping hole 6 meters deep!
After waiting in vain for 2 hours we crossed on foot carrying our backpacks down 8 meters across the streaming water and back up a 6 meter mud wall to a bus on the other side.
22 hours after leaving Palma we arrived in Cuzco. The thing to see near Cuzco is of course Machu Picchu. On Peru know this and exploit it to the max. So since there is no road to Machu Picchu.
But only a train line the monopolistic state run railroad company Peru. The cheapest of which is supposedly for backpackers and cost a whopping 45 dollars! Furthermore there is only one of these so-called "backpacker" trains per day at the uncomfortable time of 5 am.
Need 4 hours to get to your place of destination at a very slow speed. The rent off does not end there as foreigners still need to take a 8 dollars bus from the station to the ruins for some 19 minutes twice as much as an 7 hour bus ride anywhere else in the country.
Machu Picchu was regrettably filled up with peoples because it was a Monday and all peoples of Peru who pay only a fraction of what we paid to get there were out in force. So, some of them were walking around with blaring radios the serenity of the place was somewhat spoilt. But the location is majestic it is hard to suppose what got them to build in this spot.
I clambered up the mountain Wayna Picchu the high peak located behind Machu Picchu. If you arrive in the town of Machu Picchu Pueblo at the end of the train line the day before you make your way to Machu Picchu. It empowers you to get there before the crowds from Cuzco arrive by train. We spent some time the first day in the supposedly hot springs a main frustration as it was mess of insipid specific small pools with at good water.
It take a four days more in Cuzco before heading out to Altiplano a town as ugly as any town can get with barely any building or paved road. May you ask what were we doing here? Well just visiting a friend of a friend Fernando who is a priest there.
Next stop was Lake Titicaca from there we did a day trip to the floating Islands of the Uru-Muratos . Today you maybe remit to suspect that the practice is maintained only for tourists.
by: Irenka
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