Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu was AWESOME!!!!

We got up at 4 am to hike up there.,.. and ended up leaving at 4:40. The hike up was pretty long and pretty hard. Lots of stairs and lots of vertical. We got to the top at 6 am. It wasn´t open yet, so we waited till 6:30 and then went in.
We got grouped with all the kids on the other treks that we met on our jungle trek for our Machu Picchu tour. So that was cool we knew some people. Our tour guide was pretty funny. He kept talking smack about Japanese tourists and making us laugh.

When we got there, the clouds were really low, there were no tourists, and it was all surreal. It gave it this cool feeling. It was sweet.
We got through half the tour and got to the Waynapicchu trailhead. We broke off the tour and decided to hike up there because they only allow 400 people a day, and there was no one there yet.
The hike up to Waynapicchu was REALLY vigorous, but it was SO worth it. We hung out up at the ruins at the top for like an hour and a half. There was really not a lot of people up there, which made it a really cool experience.

We hiked back down and finished the rest of tour on our own. The Temple of the Condor was my favorite part, I think. It was just really cool and had these tunnels and secret passages in it. Sweet.

We spent about 5 hours there, then got hungry and needed to use the bathroom, so we began the hike back down to Aguas Calientes. We got there just in time to catch the train to Ollantaytambo, and then a bus back to Cusco.
Machu Picchu was a surreal experience. I´m glad I went, and I would go back in a heartbeat!!