Welcome to Travel Tuesday! Today I’m going to walk you through Day Four – Machu Picchu. This is a nine part series of my excursion to Peru. If you haven’t read the Travel Tuesday entries please take the time to check it out.
Just a quick recap:
Sunday, May 11, 2008 Day 1 - Flying from LAX to Lima, Peru
Monday, May 12 2008 Day 2 – Sightseeing in Lima
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Day 3 - Flying from Lima to Cusco
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Day 4 – Traveling by train to Machu Picchu
Thursday, May 15, 2008 Day 5 – Tour Pisac Market & Ollantaytambo
Friday, May 16, 2008 Day 6 – Tour City & Ruins Tour
Saturday, May 17, 2008 Day 7 -Flying to Puerto Maldonado, boat ride to Posada Amazonas
Sunday, May 18, 2008 Day 8 – Tour Tres Chimbadas Lake
Monday, May 19, 2008 Day 9 – Walking tour to the Clay Lick
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Day 10 – Airfare One Way Puerto Maldonado to Lima then Lima to LAX
In this blog entry I’m going to walk you through my day 4 in Peru at Machu Picchu.
Let’s begin. Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Day 4 – Traveling by train to Machu Picchu
I woke at 4:30 am which is like waking up at 1 am California time. Talk about crazy! Once again I rushed to shower and head upstairs for light breakfast as my train departed on-time at 6:30. My personal guide took me straight to the train station where I quickly boarded. I knew that the train ride was roughly about 8 hours long so I brought a few snacks with me and had my camera out in case I saw something interesting. I think these next couple of photographs will speak for themselves.
I took the photograph below through the train window. I really like seeing the landscape in the background and the women in the foreground with her baby on her back working hard keeping those cows in line. She wasn’t alone as she had her dog helping.

View from my seat of the front of the train going around the bend.

During the 8 hour train ride we passed by so many cities/towns/villages. I saw a few men and women standing their selling their goods.

















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