Our friends from Orlando told us that you had to go through someone's backyard in order to get there, so we did some guess work with trying to find it. Luckily, we had an awesome guide helping us. Here she is in all her furry glory:
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| Puppy! |
It was the funniest thing. Mike and I were walking down a side street, trying to find the entrance to this place, when this dog just decided to follow us. Since she wasn't being aggressive, we decided to let her come with us. We thought that as soon as we started our climb, she'd go home. But nope. The little gal stuck with us the entire way up. She was in better shape than either Mike or I. She would run ahead of us and then come back if we were taking too long.
When we looked up at the ruins above us, I couldn't decide if the trek up was going to be difficult or not. Turns out it wasn't. But the altitude that made it somewhat hard. I was taking video of us walking up and you can hear me panting. Our hearts were racing, but we made it to the top. And the view was amazing. Because we went up so early, we were able to get awesome pictures of the fortress without a lot of people on it.
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| Our view from the top. |
We hung out at the top for awhile and then decided to head back. Our furry guide left us about halfway down because apparently we were going too slow for her liking. She went down with another group that was moving faster than we were. Mike said it was because she knew we didn't need her help. After we got back into town, we grabbed our bags and hung out at a cafe for a little while since we had time to kill before our train left.
Mike and I lucked out with our train seats. Since we had booked them so early, we got to sit in the very front of the first car, meaning that we got a side view and a massive front view since the conductor's cabin was to the right of us. We were both already very excited for the train ride, and being up front made it that much better.
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| View from the train. |
We arrived in Aguas Calentes around 5:30 and proceeded to check in to our freaking sweet hotel. We staid in a tree house. Yep, a tree house. It. Was. AWESOME! We were upgraded to a suite, which meant that we had a two-story tree house. The upstairs is where we slept and it had a killer view of the mountains. We could see a tiny bit of Machu Picchu. Our reservation also came with dinner, so we got to eat at the amazing on-site restaurant. I had cuy for dinner. Google it. I won't ruin the surprise for you guys.
Sadly, half way through dinner, Mike started to not feel so great. He stuck around for as long as he could, then went upstairs to sleep. Since we were going to be getting up at 5:15 to be at the bus for Machu Picchu at 6, we needed to get all the sleep we could. Up next, we tackle Machu Picchu at an ungodly hour.
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