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Inca Trail & the Amazon Rainforest

 Day 14 - Machu Picchu

25th August 2015

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Part 3 - Wider site views & an Unusual train ride


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Machu Picchu is such an iconic site, that most of these photo's need no description, they're just Miche & I at higher elevations in Machu Picchu with variations of the well known view in the background...

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Mortuary rock - thought to have been used for mummifications...


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Looking up through the haze to the Sun Gate where we had entered from the Inca Trail yesterday...

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Trying to keep a straight face...

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Back in Aguas Caliente - me in the main square taking a touristy pose, because I am a tourist...

Aguas Calientes


A most unusual train journey

What we expected to be a bog-standard train back to Ollantaytambo, turned out to be a glass roofed scenic train complete with on-board meal, dancing and a fashion show.

We should have known something was afoot when Bobby changed seats...

Train 1





Intentions unclear...

Train 2




He just wants to dance...

Train 3




Alpaca fashion show - a sales pitch of course, but performed in a really engaging way...

Train 4




Our rail crew - I don't get that on the Luton Airport Parkway to Farringdon service...

Train 5
Next - Day 15 - Cuzco to Puno


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Day 1 - London to Amsterdam Day 2 - Amsterdam to Lima Day 3 - Lima - City & Fountains
Day 4 - Lima - Changing of the guard Day 5 - Lima to the Rainforest Day 6 - Rainforest - Macaws & Caiman
Day 7 - Rainforest - Canoe & walk Day 8 - Rainforest to Cuzco Day 9 - Cuzco
Day 10 - Inca Trail - day 1 Day 11 - Inca Trail - day 2 Day 12 - Inca Trail - day 3
Day 13 - Inca Trail - day 4 Day 14 - Machu Picchu Day 15 - Cuzco to Puno
Day 16 - Lake Titicaca Homestay Day 17 - Return to Lima Day 18 - Lima to Home