Macchu Picchu - Peru

Oh My God! I hope never to have to go up stairs again. The journey up ze mountain to Macchu Picchu was about 20,000 steps - all big, all higgledy piggledy and all painful. The first 15 mins wasn’t too bad, (yeah right!) after that it was just horrible!
We left our rooms about 5.15am (what the %*ck!!) and wandered up to the start of the steps in the dark. Then we climbed up about 3 sets of ‘the stairs’ and my head was nearly about to pop off! The Swiss lads were bombing along but it was a ‘smidgeon’ too fast for me, so we sent them on ahead. Trudge Trudge Trudge – how can I emphasise how painful it was!
We got to Macchu Picchu about 6.45am. It was amazing. The view was out of this world! We were so high up! The stonework itself was cool! It’s unbelievable how they built it on top of such a high mountain. Apparently if you look at Macchu Picchu sideways, it looks like an indian’s head! It was hella cool. Then I lost the others and went a hiking up another two million miles up into the blue! Eek! Eventually I copped that I had gone too high and made my way back down again to the exit, where I found ze others at ze bar.
We had lunch and then went for a dip in the stinky brown backpacker waters of the Aguas Calientes Thermal baths.
Then back on the train to Cuzco and back to the Gringos shack for some yummy food, then said goodbye to the lads and headed to the sack!

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