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Machu Picchu
Blog: The Road Chose Me - 50,000kms of ebb and flow - 5 November 2010
I remember when I first dreamed of this adventure, the number one sight on my list for South America was Machu Picchu – probably because I didn’t know anything else. Taking the train from Cuzco is really expensive (USD$122 return) so I decide to go for the cheaper, walk-in option. I set out early one [...]
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Machu Picchu – Take A Torch. And Bug Repellent. And Sun Cream.
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 29 April 2010
The long walk up to Machu Picchu. Oh wow, was that more of a mission than I ever imagined, or what. It’s funny; when planning out the Machu Picchu trip this aspect of it never really crossed my brain for more than a few fleeting seconds. It was of less importance than getting to Aguas [...]
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Cusco To Machu Picchu – The Cheap Way Is A Mission
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 26 April 2010
There have been many vague and brief descriptions of the “cheap” way to make it to Machu Picchu, but I haven’t come across a properly detailed one yet, so here we go; maybe this will help others who really can’t afford the US$90 train. Step 1: Get the Quillabamba bus from Santiago terminal in Cusco. [...]
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Machu Picchu - Peru
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 24 April 2010
We stayed the night before in the town of Aguas Calientes. This town was not as I had expected. It's possible that we have yet to visit somewhere that gets such a turnover of tourists everyday, but this place was like an Alpine ski village. And as such, not a cheap place to be. But I felt quite impressed by what Peru has done here. As my last blog explained, this is not an easy place to get to. In fact, I was expecting more of a dusty little town with a couple of overpriced restaurants.
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Getting to Machu Picchu – Details
Blog: Trip Down - 24 April 2010
Machu Picchu Getting There After The Floods (a) General: This inca site is located in a deep gorge of the Urubamba river, right where the High Andes meet the Amazon. The site is surrounded by virgin cloud forest. The mountain rising above the site, which you see in all the pictures is called Huayna (Wayna) Picchu. [...]
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Getting to Machu Picchu
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 23 April 2010
If only I'd had my laptop with me the day we made the journey to Machu Picchu. My head was full of advice received from other travellers and blogs alike, and as the day unfolded, it all turned out to be pretty useless. I wanted to get on the blog straightaway and set the record straight. But it has had to wait until now.
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Machu Picchu and other Incan sites
Blog: One Year+ of Vagabonding through Latin America - 18 January 2010
I was lucky enough to see Machu Picchu just a week before the terrible floods of late January resulted in the closing of the site for several months. Ironically, the site itself is absolutely fine – those Incans certainly knew how to build for the ages – but the routes to get there are all [...]
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Day 5- Aguas Calientes, Machu Picchu, Peru
Blog: Random Ramblings: Travels in S.America - 31 December 2009
Around 4:15am I was awake and preparing for the day. I didn't sleep very much last night due to being miserably ill, but my excitement for what was ahead gave me energy to get up and deal with it. I took some of the medicine I had bought, and that made me feel surprisingly better. This was great, because if I was sick for Machu Picchu my anger and disappointment could not be completely expressed. Once we got our backpacks ready John and I walked to the bus stop.
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What to do with 2 Weeks in Peru; Part 1
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 9 June 2009
When you don't have a lot of time, Peru can be a little overwhelming to try and travel through. It is a vast country with so much to see. Where do you start? Do you go to the Amazon Basin, check out Lake Titicaca in the far south or do you climb Cordillera Huayhuash? Having never been before, we decided to do what the tourists do, since we only had two weeks in Peru. How can we go all the way there, and not see Machu Picchu? It would be like missing the Pyramids while in Egypt.
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