Author: neil

Days 15-16 Rett had come up with a whole line of sites she wanted to see in the Sacred Valley, and initially we’d assumed that we would slowly hop with our bikes from the west “end” at Ollantaytambo, to the east end at Pisac, 37 miles away. But the Incas seemed to revel in making…

It’s technically possible to train into Aguas Calientes/Machu Picchu Pueblo, visit Machu Picchu, and train out all in one day. Not actually possible for us or anyone like us who needed to buy next-day tickets on-site, but we still could have escaped last night if we’d really wanted to. But we didn’t want to! Instead…

Rett had been hoping for 6am tickets to Machu Picchu in order to see the Lost City of the Incas revealed by sunrise. But upon leaving our hotel and getting a view of the fog-draped mountains, it was obvious that even with our 7am tickets, we were unlikely to see sun at all. So at…

The archeological site of Machu Picchu, “The Lost City of the Incas”, roosts 1,200 feet directly above the Urubamba River and Aguas Calientes (aka “Machu Picchu Pueblo”), the modern village where visitors can spend the night. A trail of stairs connects the two locations, but the vast majority of visitors take a bus run by…

Day 3 For our second full day in Ollantaytambo, we decided to do a much shorter but much taller walk up to the Inca granaries that cling to the mountain that rises right from the backside of our AirBNB. The steep trail up the mountainside begins right from one of the stone-paved streets in the…