Machu Picchu

The main purpose of my trip to Peru was to see the amazing Inca city of Machu Picchu. Anything else I got to see in Peru was just a bonus (of which there was a lot of other things we saw as we travelled all around the country). The journey to Machu Picchu started at 4:30am in Cusco due to having to be ready and at the San Pedro train station for a 6am departure so we could make it to Aguas Calientes (spanish for "warm water") as early as possible. We actually made it to the train station with time to spare despite the hotels promise of a 5am breakfast arriving at 5:20am with no time to eat it. The train we took to Aguas Calientes was a little different to British trains - it was called a Vistadome as it had windows in the roof too. PeruRail use these trains so that tourists can see everything around them on the 4 hour train journey. As the trains are short on space, all we could take were our backpacks - our luggage had to be left at the Samay hotel in Cusco for a couple of days unt... Read more