One of the highlights of our trip was to travel from Cusco city by train for 3 hours to the place on the Inka tribes most spectacular engineering feat - Machu Pichu. You can always open a travel book or an edition of a travel page in the Sunday papers and pretty much find a picture of this amazing place.
We weren't sure what to expect about the climb to Machu. We had visited several Inka ruins close to the city of Cusco with a fair hike of about 300 steps in places. We thought this was our training for the big event. However, we were taken by mini bus from the small township where we were staying for a 15 minute bus ride to the top of the mountain to explore the spiritual place where thousands of years ago approx 300 people lived on a hillside, built with stone including water distribution systems and strategically placed buildings.
It was cloud covered and raining when we arrived, so with our wet weather gear and rain ponchos over the top(which make you look the side of a house, if you are a size larger than the average three bedroom home like I am, we braved the weather to commence the trek of walking over, around, up and down to explore with our guide the interpretations of modern archeologists' viewpoints.
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