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Day 139: End of the Road - Latin America
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 30 June 2010
Rio de Janeiro seen from Corcovado - the world's most jaw droppingly gorgeous city This is it. Our journey in Latin America has come to an epic end. Who would have thought we’d travel through Central and South America by land, with only a hopping flight between the two. We’ve clocked 450 hours of bus and boat time, covered 28,000 kilometers of gravel, dirt and asphalt (3 times the flying
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A New Member of Kevin’s Top Three
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 27 May 2010
5/18/10: Inca Trail, Peru For a plethora of reasons, today might have been the most anticipated day of the trip. No other place on our itinerary required such a combination of time, effort, money and intestinal fortitude just in order to get a glimpse of it as did Machu Picchu. Sure, we hiked further and [...]
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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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第七十六天：天空之城
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 28 April 2010
我們終於來到馬丘比丘，破曉時分進場看到吞雲吐霧的空中城堡，我只可以說她美得不著邊際，很 surreal. 我和黃G 有點被她的震撼攝呆了 -- 背靠兩座山、東西兩邊的山下都以河川相伴，而且城鎮規劃井井有條；由城門開始，沿途有廟宇、祭祀的浴場、皇宮、廣場、天文台，遠處有坐西向東的民宿和收納戰俘的監牢，當然少不了綠油油的梯田讓以務農為主的印加族幹活。 印加城外的梯田 我們從高處遠眺下去，這躲在雲海中的天空之城隨著日出而被層層揭開，我們逐漸看到其神祕面紗背後的真身 -- 太了不起了！不愧為新七大奇景！聽說印加皇帝千挑萬選才決定在這裡建城，我和黃G 不禁驚嘆古人的智慧和才幹！在 2,400 米的荒蕪高山上大興土木，談何容易？！ 還有那條守城橋！古人是怎樣在那岌岌可危的懸崖峭壁上修路再起橋呢？單是望下去已讓我發軟！我自言自語印加皇帝除了有遠見有謀略外，其人民亦勇氣可嘉。
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Day 76: City of Heaven - Machu Picchu
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 27 April 2010
After 15,500 kms and 76 days of travel, we finally made it to one of our most anticipated destinations - Machu Picchu, 'lost' city of the Incas. We arrived a day late for KF's bday... By 0500, there was already a long line waiting for the first bus up to MP. We got on the 7th bus for the 0530 departure, making us the 200th or so in line! The uphill ride took about 20 minutes but felt like
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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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Hiking around Machu Picchu and Motorbiking in the Sacred Valley, Peru
Blog: Trip Down - 26 April 2010
After spending a few days in Cusco recovering from the previous three days riding rough roads endlessly through the Andes, we took a bus to the Piscacucho train station – where the trains now leave for Machu Picchu. The late afternoon bus ride took us down into the Sacred Valley which has gentle rolling green [...]
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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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Options for getting to Machu Picchu – Post April 1 2010 Re-opening after floods
Blog: Trip Down - 19 April 2010
Update: Just met Micha (Germany on Africa Twin) in Nortons Pub on the Plaza de Armas in Cusco this evening after not seeing him since Medellin. He just got back from Machu Picchu. He drove 5 hours or so on paved (badly) roads and 1.5 hours on dirt plus 1.5 feet of water crossing the [...]
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Kuélap: Machu Picchu alternate
Blog: Lonely Planet blog - 3 February 2010
Machu Picchu may be closed to visits for several months, but don’t cancel your Peru trip just yet. In Peru’s less-visited northern highlands, the country’s second-most thrilling archaealogical site, Kuélap, is still open. Rain is not an issue up here. ‘It was sunny yesterday, it’s sunny today,’ Alicia from Chachapoyas Tours in nearby market town [...]
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Cusco in emergency
Blog: The Brink of Something Else - 27 January 2010
Up until (bless great luck) the day before the Australia Day BBQ, we suffered through practically incessant rain for around a week and a half. Not all that surprising, given that we are in the wet season, but apparently normally there are at least patches of sunshine.
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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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Machu Picchu: Fact and Fiction
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 12 October 2009
Hiram Bingham III, the proto-typical Indiana Jones, discovered Machu Picchu in 1911.
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The Classic Inca Trail
Blog: AlpacaSuitcase - 10 October 2009
When Hiram Bingham re-discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, he noticed a road leading away from the lost ancient Inca citadel. In a May 1916 National Geographic article “Further Explorations in the Land of the Incas”, Bingham wrote, “Later we located part of an ancient road leading back from the city up the mountain side and across the face of one of the towering precipices on Machu Picchu Mountain.
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Seeing Machu Picchu (despite the clouds)
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 7 October 2009
It has been noted in the past that I can be somewhat…competitive, and the prospect of competing with two hundred other trekkers to get to Machu Picchu made me determined to beat them all. So despite a few two many beers the night before, Adrian & I found ourselves getting up at the ungodly hour of [...]
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The Inca Trail
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 5 October 2009
To think I wasn’t even going to do the Inca Trail orginally. I’d fallen into the trap of listening to too many other backpackers talk about how it’s too touristy, too expensive, and not even as good as the many alternatives such as the Salkantay Trail. Luckily, a comment from Gillian on this post started to [...]
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Machu Picchu
Blog: Felicity Sees... - 5 October 2009
The traditional Inka trail trek is so popular that you have to book a place several months in advance if you plan to do it. I didn't, so an alternative was always on the cards. I wasn't much up for gasping my way through thin air and days of leg burning hikes, so signed up instead for a different tour called 'Inka Jungle' which offered a bit more variation and a bit less exertion {well, supposedly}.
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Is Crying An Altitude Symptom? – Lares Trek
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 20 July 2009
January 2008 - This was a difficult trek. We opted to do the Lares trek rather than the Inca Trail as it’s much less traveled. Although this trek doesn’t take you directly to Machu Picchu, (you have to take a train from Ollantaytambo) it is a better option for people looking for a cultural [...]
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Peru. Checking off More of the Life List before we Kick the Bucket
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 12 June 2009
Last year a fantastic movie with Jack Nickleson and Morgan Freeman came out, and everyone jumped on the band wagon of making a “Bucket List.” I am glad that this started getting people to finally get out there and start living their lives. Now that we have crazy and more extreme ambitions and it is nice to visit places like Victoria Falls or Egypt, where we can tick a bunch items on our “bucket list” in one destination. That was what it was like when we visited Peru.
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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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Our Favorite Ruins of the World
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 9 May 2009
We have been lucky enough to see some of the most magnificent sights on earth. The ones that always seem to amaze us the most are the incredible ruins and temples of the world.
