Today, we hiked up Waynapicchu. That's the pointy mountain behind the Machu Picchu site. It is not an easy or especially fun hike but worth it. The views are fantastic.
It took us about an hour to get to the top. The round trip was 4.2 miles, 10,000 steps and 78 flights of stairs. You climb up these really steep stairs and sometimes pull yourself up by ropes or cables. The route has a lot of tree coverage so it is not hot. The route down included a long stretch of really narrow steps so that you had to go down sideways since that's the only way your feet would fit on the treads.
Here's a view of Machu Picchu from the top of the mountain
Machu Picchu is on the right and the squiggly white line on the left is the scary road that the bus uses to take people to the site.
Tonight we take the Hiram Bingham train back to Cusco. It's a fancy Orient Express train so looking forward to that.
It took us about an hour to get to the top. The round trip was 4.2 miles, 10,000 steps and 78 flights of stairs. You climb up these really steep stairs and sometimes pull yourself up by ropes or cables. The route has a lot of tree coverage so it is not hot. The route down included a long stretch of really narrow steps so that you had to go down sideways since that's the only way your feet would fit on the treads.
Here's a view of Machu Picchu from the top of the mountain
Machu Picchu is on the right and the squiggly white line on the left is the scary road that the bus uses to take people to the site.
Tonight we take the Hiram Bingham train back to Cusco. It's a fancy Orient Express train so looking forward to that.
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