we are almost a machu picchu station in about two minutes we are going to be
docking adopting land a land arriving
good morning from Cusco right now we are inside the colectivo
and then we're about to head out to at small town called Ollantaytambo
and that's where we gonna catch our train up way up, or gets way down
way down that done it much Picchu yeah to Aguas Calientes and
then we're gonna stay there overnight and then we're gonna wake up really
early probably about 4 o'clock tomorrow morning and make our way over to Machu
Picchu to try to be first in line but first we've got this two-hour ride which
by the way costs 10 soles per person about three dollars each as vehicles say
unless and what I'm really excited about is the train we actually bought the
ticket from home for a rail and it's gonna be our first training experience
it's the pictures sierra if the pictures prove to be right it's gonna be a nice
trying to safety first
we made it we have just arrived in origin paid tombow or whatever oh yeah a
young maid Tom eventually and we were told originally this was gonna be a
two-hour ride and we left this morning at about latest quarter past eight and
it is now 9:30 so an hour and fifteen minutes the drive is beautiful and it
seems like is some kind of shortcut look like was a pretty new road and it just
goes right along with the Poirot Rail Trail yeah so it's pretty cool
anyway we're going to go and look for the train station because it looks like
we're up a little bit high for the train station so we're gonna have to go down
this little town is actually pretty Queen surrounded by mountain and just
right behind us and it already can see it this where the famous Oriente tombow
ruins but you're gonna visit later we're gonna go get a coffee and see if we can
get a massage no one had a massage on the top spot with the low ceiling
well we're done with our coffee and now about what ten minute walk to the train
station it gets our train to aguas calientes aguas calientes for hot
springs we got to find snacks that we can't finally snacks every time we go
into a place it's like terrible snacks yeah so we're hopeful the transition or
even the train have some kind of purchase you know food or drinks because
obviously on the trains can be a lot cheaper we'll see
obviously that's not our train otherwise we'll be completely freaking out right
now our snacks
she's gonna be in care each elf which is going to be right there we're going to
start lighting up
and we're boarding the train
so we get on the train and we were told you absolutely bring our passport
because you would be able to get on the train without your passport and they
looked at our tickets look at the passports didn't open them just take it
on the train
I can't believe we are on a train through Machu Picchu which is so
exciting I can't and it has even windows on the ceiling so we can look around
whatever you want and it's about maybe two hour journey nothing too much would
be too yeah I should be I think it's about two hours so pretty excited I'm
hoping no one sits in front of us because we can get all that legroom but
that's not gonna happen that we can they have a good best friend who should have
got that
I'm certainly think maybe the train with the windows on the ceiling are weren't
the greatest idea first of all it's really warm in this train if we've been
kind of stalling for about five minutes now I'm not exactly sure what's going on
one of our Co passengers is also sort of trying to hang up a makeshift curtain
window and I went into the restroom and applied sunscreen well as you can see
it's a full Sun not trying to be negative just telling it like it is
positive side we are going to see much of you - yeah the negative side is we're
stopping we may never get there start getting a red right here yeah
there we go removing
tor sorry it's kind of noisy the bathroom is really lean in the toilet
theater told paper paper towel into the same so and most importantly actually
this window where you can actually film just on your eye level this slightly
outside the window
we are almost a machu picchu station in about two minutes we are going to be
docking Qadhafi land a land arriving and then all of a sudden it's gotten too
cool in here from yet another step because of sun went away most of the
time we actually get like underneath the Sun so it felt pretty hot yeah it's
pretty cloudy Dagestan for another couple hours now I'm excited almost here
almost there please and gentlemen in a few minutes
we'll be arriving at the final station machu picchu pueblo please remain in
your seats until the train has come to a complete stop and make sure you have all
of your hair I'm gonna say I would never ever ever complain about the scenery on
that train but I'm not a big fan of the temperature however I'm really glad to
get off the train and see all of this around us and the fresh air amazing we
might have given you an impression that we're going to Machu Picchu right away
but we're not we're going to be sleeping here tonight and getting up and having a
ticket at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning which means we get into my to beat you
first like a maze of artists and stuff to get out from the station oh my god
this is crazy really to get out from a station it is just a maze of stuff it's
nuts so much stuff no we're going maybe let's go downstairs
but that's plenty to do here Michael what a place to be setting up a football
game at least you can breathe out there so you get a fool breath yeah believe it
or not even though it looks like we're way up in the mountains which we Cana
are we are about at least a thousand meters lower than we are so it's much
easier to breathe here yeah we just check it out hustle and now we're about
to have for a very late lunch and I'm star
let's go a restaurant is right behind us we had a good pizza there it's really
really weird though we were sitting in there and also we felt this really big
Brum bowl I mean we didn't think was an earthquake or anything but it was at the
Train this is the main street and the train runs through it that was weird
don't know what to say after pizza lunch which is cost about 30 US dollars
everything's expensive here our less task is to figure out the transportation
tomorrow we get six o'clock entrance to Machu Picchu and in order to get there
that's about 20 minute maybe bus ride from I'll go for the endless so instead
of trying to figure everything out at five o'clock in the morning that's where
we're gonna do now we went to the bus station and then it turned out that they
need our passports in order to buy the tickets so we have to go back and they
actually closed at 10:00 o'clock anyway so we're just gonna wait until later on
tonight where are we gonna get the ticket we have given our passport for
every little thing that we've done in Peru it just doesn't make any sense
anyway isn't it beautiful
it supposed to be the medians one way when you get on but you don't get off so
we get the ticket we have to think okay $24 for face the 15 minute ride
basically it looks like the trash picked up you see how the speeder
those things it speed down the tracks the bits things cool for city that
actually doesn't really have anything much to do it's actually putting a
little well lit up yeah it's beautiful actually but all right there's
absolutely nothing to do here but eat and do tourist things and I just read
someone's posts about aguas calientes and she said that everything is
expensive here because they produce nothing so everything has to be imported
from other cities it just exists solely because of tourism yeah much Picchu
that's the reason if that is here yep but we're near glad to be here we walk
around the night
which is a town that we have to go to about two hours outside of Cusco to
catch a train yeah so our plan today is just to go to you said everything that I
need to say I don't trust pictures don't know if that was but everybody seems
just banging in the door we are heading to a place called ie
or yen Tumbo or en tomboy and something like that I don't think that's quite
right yeah so from my in tight on bow okay thank you
oh yeah oh yeah there you go we'll get it right big bags our bags I've ever had
mustard on