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May 26, 2008
Peru Day 8 - Machu Picchu (and a nightmare!) : Jared as Artist
So I wake up at 6am because I´m so excited to go to Machu Picchu and its pouring, I mean rain rain, the whole city is in a fog. So I grab my stuff and head out anyways. I buy a rain poncho and head to the bus station and find out you have to buy a ticket to Machi Piccu somewhere else. I figure I should look into getting out of town and go to the train station and purchase tickets to Olyantatambo on the only train I can Tuesday at 9:15 PM (backpackers again). I also buy the tickets to Machu Picchu cause I don´t want Tim to get up and find that they are sold out (only a certain number of people per day).
I come back to the hotel about 8am wake up Tim, hand him his tickets and brief him on the situation and head out. The situation is: no food, no drink, no bottles, no walking sticks unless elderly. I emptied most of my bag but did take but 2 liter water backpack. Tim was going to bring food in his bag later for the two of us.
The moment I get to the bus it stops raining (im told it rains everymorning) and I head off. Its way up through the mist and mountains and I´m very excited. I get off and head into Machu Piccu and follow throngs of tourists (its already busy!) and I walked to the comeplete other end and I find that the big mountain over Machu Piccu is open still (they only allow 400 people a day) and I figure what they hell and at 10:15 signed in the log book and started my ascent. It was a crazy trek up and up and up and I didn´t reach the summit till 1pm!
But they are closing this Internet cafe so you all have to wait to hear what happened tommorow!
Boo hoo
Jared
Posted by jeb2 at May 26, 2008 11:38 PM
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