Aguas Calientes

 

 

A little town in the right place and the base camp for all excursions to Machu Picchu and environment. There is a train station, souvenir stands next to that, and lots of hostels and hotels, restaurants, bars, little markets, and the all important ticket booth for the bus ride up within a gorgeous landscape. The locals are, to a man and woman, friendly and supportive. No arrogance or looking down on tourists. They're appreciated, because they're the local economy.

 

 

 

Yes. That's the all important ticket booth (top right). The lizard was briefly in line ahead of me, but changed his mind. As you can see, no wallet. One can, after all, hike up to the Machu Picchu gate for free, but I opted not to. The reason was that I wanted to spend all the time I could on-site, and not spend an hour or so, hiking up there.

 

Extra locomotives standing by and at times also freight cars are parked here to be unloaded.

 

 

 
Day or night, the party is on.

 

 

The street that where my hostel is. It runs parallel to the river. Just cross any bridge coming from the station, and there you are.

 

Then, after a full day on the mountain, I was back, waiting for my train, eating a sandwich, and sipping a Peruvian Pisco Sour, and another adventure finished.

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