Machu Picchu and Beyond

Buenas Dias amigos


A quick update post as we have had few opportunities of late.

Cuzco was really great and the hotel very well located. We are now on the road, yesterday Machu Picchu and today Ollantaytambo. Machu Picchu was everything everybody has claimed, just awesome, although as to why it is where it is will remain a mystery. Definitely hard to get to and when there tiring to get around even though we are pretty altitude acclimatised.

Thankful that we are not trekking, its hard enough to get to the top of the complex let alone climbing the mountains to get there. Sally, take note the highest pass is called dead women’s pass!! I reckon I’m fairly fit but the climbing puffs me out.

The stone work is amazing and the geometry and astral aspects almost unfathomable. Have some great photos and hopefully video if the sound is OK.

The hotel, the Machu Pueblo, was eco style in a garden setting, a real 5 star effort. The only down side was that it began raining when we were at dinner and the rooms are some distance away up hill.

Today Ollantaytambo, in some ways more intriguing as the quarry was probably 10 miles away miles up amountain and on the other side of the river (as opposed to MP were the quarry is on site). Again we both found the climb to the top tiring although the trick seems to be to take it slow and easy.

Tonights hotel the Casa Andaina at Valle Sagrado equally splendid but as it ins in the plains the setting is a more formal garden. Dinner again shortly, can hardly get into the jeans.

Tomorrow more Inka and then to the Pisco market and back to Cuczo.

Hopefully there we can check emails. Bigpond should be condemned, their web site is so complex and hard to access that the connections often can not cope. They need a simple site for overseas travellers, it just crazy for them to try to be so clever.

Hasta Luego as others wish to also get frustrated at this computer.

Geoff