Aguas Calientes (Machupicchu)
12/18/2005
hi
the strike ended wednesday afternoon, so i didn´t have to hike the rail
afterall. but of course, my tour company (inca wasi) is not the one that
told me! i found out through another travel company that was touting tours
on the street. so i went back to inca wasi at around 8 pm wed. night and
asked that they book me on the train. i know everyone in that office i have
been there so often. let´s see, there is walter (who i like the least, and
yes... i have a nick name for him: senor diablo 2), and yanet who is
semi-helpful. kiki is the one with the best english-who is often made
middle man between me and walter, pedro and julio are the gophers who speak
less english than i speak spanish. there are like 3 other people, but they
are like extras on a movie set, and they get minor mention in the credits.
there is more to the story... but i am getting off track: i caught the
train and made it out here. it is beautiful. the andes are something to
behold. once again i find myself regretting not going on the hike. but
avoiding pain is a strong motivator.
machu picchu is amazing. i have been to ruins in mexico and laos, cambodia;
what is so special about machu picchu is its position in the mountains. to
stand there among those temples and view the vastness of the andes around
you is something to experience. the structure is not completely
unbelievable by itself, but when considering the that the incans transported
those rocks into those mountains, it blows me away.
joseph
hi
the strike ended wednesday afternoon, so i didn´t have to hike the rail
afterall. but of course, my tour company (inca wasi) is not the one that
told me! i found out through another travel company that was touting tours
on the street. so i went back to inca wasi at around 8 pm wed. night and
asked that they book me on the train. i know everyone in that office i have
been there so often. let´s see, there is walter (who i like the least, and
yes... i have a nick name for him: senor diablo 2), and yanet who is
semi-helpful. kiki is the one with the best english-who is often made
middle man between me and walter, pedro and julio are the gophers who speak
less english than i speak spanish. there are like 3 other people, but they
are like extras on a movie set, and they get minor mention in the credits.
there is more to the story... but i am getting off track: i caught the
train and made it out here. it is beautiful. the andes are something to
behold. once again i find myself regretting not going on the hike. but
avoiding pain is a strong motivator.
machu picchu is amazing. i have been to ruins in mexico and laos, cambodia;
what is so special about machu picchu is its position in the mountains. to
stand there among those temples and view the vastness of the andes around
you is something to experience. the structure is not completely
unbelievable by itself, but when considering the that the incans transported
those rocks into those mountains, it blows me away.
joseph
posted by jacob at 12:47 PM
1 Comments:
After all that commentary on getting to Machupicchu, all the preparations in getting the cheese and bread into your backpack, all the fuss with the train, all the stealing of camera and that's it... "machupicchu is amazing." Barely even a paragraph of description. It's like this fantastic build up to the most incredible climax in a movie and then "the structure is not completely unbelievable by itself". I feel like I never peaked.
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