Saturday 13 September 2008

On the road to Machu Pichu

This little cutey was in what seemed to be the one house in a 'town' called hydro-electric (named after the water treatment plant there). She was very sweet. I gave her some sweets and a pencil with all the times tables on it.


Here she is 2 seconds later sat with the pencil creating a masterpiece.


Walking the tracks to the train. We got the train from Aguas Calientes. It was great to travel for a bit by train and watch the scenery go by. The train has to climb teh mouintain first and in order to do this the track zig-zags up the mountain so for a while the journey feels quite bizarre becasue you go one way for 5 minutes and then you stop and go back the other way for another 5 minutes and so on for half an hour, you feel like you're going nowhere.


I took this picture from the window of the promised land....a hostel in Aguas Calientes (the twon next to MAchu Pichu)....with a real toilet with a door, a hot shower and a bed! All these things seemed so luxurious that day...to be clean and the process of becoming clean became a past-time in itself. We arrived there at the crack of dawn, had breakfast and then started on our way up to Machu Pichu at 1st light.

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