Author: neil

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…

Day 2 Our 5-day push from Abancay to Ollantaytambo was comfortably-spaced, meaning that we didn’t arrive too exhausted, and were able to immediately do an exploration the day after arrival. It would be an easy one though, a 4-mile walk back to the junction where we had entered the Sacred Valley yesterday, where Rett had…

This morning’s breakfast was even more of a challenge than yesterday’s; when we walked out to the main street, we couldn’t find any open restaurants or street vendors. We walked back and forth a couple times, getting increasingly frustrated with each other and the town, but that gave time for my hypothesis to be proven…