My train, my car
got me to Aguas Calientes before noon and I had a wonderful time exploring this sweet town.
Absolutely no motorized vehicles here except the buses to the top of Machu Picchu and they operate from that side of the valley so no pollution and very happy and safe children, no worries about cars on their streets
Sky lights on the train
On the way up the hill to the hot springs
That translates to :
baked guinea pig
alpaca steak
Andean rooster
baked trout
special potatoes etc
no delivery trucks here!
great playing fields , in the evening they are full of soccer and volleyball players
every ten minutes these buses do the 8 double back switchbacks to the top, hard to imagine they can meet another one on the way down, but they are on walkie talkies full time
Next morning at seven, I took the bus to the top to greet the hikers who had broken camp at 3 am in order to make the Sun Gate by sunrise, oops, no sign of the sun here this morning.
The ruins were neatly covered the whole valley of fog
which quickly dissipated as we arrived.
As the fog lifted these amazing buildings emerged
Happy to be here!
Me too!
The whole gang
I had no idea this place was so huge! At one point, there were 1000 people living here.
Top of Sun temple
Outside view of Sun temple
Some engineering feat
The quarry
temple of the puma
Temple of the Condor
The head of the condor is on the ground
I was pleased to show Dave the town I had enjoyed the day before.
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