Rain, lamas and strange happenings in Macchu Picchu

OK, we have seen Machu Pichu now. Overall we thought Maachu Pichu was great. We were a little worried that with all the hype about it, we would be a little dissapointed, especially after having visited Choquequero, which is bigger. Also, when we woke up at 4;45am to climb waynapichhu (the small mountain next to the main site) it was pouring with rain. This was the best view we saw and you can see the clouds. We spent a lot of time standing and staring, waiting for a gap in the clouds, like these three senioritas.

It was a fairly steep climb back down as you can see from the following pic.

When we came down though the weather cleared and we had an excellent day slowly touring the site. we had a guide for 2 hours and were there from about 6;30 in the morning till about 4pm.

On the right is is a pic of Barbra eating one of Marie Palmer´s amazing cookies which she saved all this time for this special place. Below tim and barbra share some private time with the lamas. You can see Waynapicchu in the background of two of these pics.

Apart from Marie´s cookie, the highlight of the day had to be this rather bizarre display of dancing from the baggage boy on the Peru Rail service coming back from Machu Pichu.

We are now back in cuzco and will catch a bus to Puna tommorrow morning.

Tim