Day 17, Wednesday
June 17, 2009
We spent the morning packing all of our stuff up and running back and forth between eating our breakfast, getting ready for our journey to Aguas Calientes: the land of Machu Picchu! Danny arranged for us to have a van drive us through Ollentayambo, with a few tourists from the last couple days, Javier from Costa Rica and another Ecuadorian family who took a particular liking to us. We stopped at a few places before arriving at the train station to see some gorgeous vistas.
We boarded the train, and grabbed some corn and cheese from an old woman passing by outside the window of the train. After an hour of train, we finally arrived at Aguas Calientes. We explored around, and found that it was quite a touristy place. Found a nice little pizza place (seems to be a trend, but it was soothing to our tummies… along with my addiction to mate de coca) and shared a few hearty giggles with their mascot parrot, Polly.
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- Little cusqueñanitas playing with bottle caps
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- corn & cheese
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- train ride to Aguas Calientes
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- jengaaa!
We found that there wasn’t much to do in the town besides shop and wander around, so we spent the evening playing jenga and chess over pisco sours, guacamole, and alpaca kebabs.
