With 8 days off, Nicole and I set off to Atlanta and then Lima, and then Cusco, and then Ollantaytambo, and then Aguas Calientes. This would put us within striking distance of the famous Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. It was a very involved process to get here, but we elected to push through to get here and then take our time working our way back for the remainder of the trip.
It's currently the low season here in Peru, so the crowds are smaller, but the clouds and rain are more abundant. Hopefully tomorrow when we try and see the site, the weather will cooperate. We were considering going up today as well since we arrived in town at 2pm, but it's a fairly involved process to buy all the separate tickets and so forth.
When we tried to buy bus tickets, they just automatically gave us tickets for tomorrow without bothering to ask. Then we discovered that the ministry of tourism would only accept Soles (local currency) for the entrance fee to the site itself which we also had to buy ahead of time and took a few trips because the student rate we hoped to get was denied and we didn't have enough money. Well now it was 4pm and we obviously weren't going to see the ruins today so we remained productive and purchased our train tickets for our ride out of town. Now (hopefully) all the stress is done since everything should now be taken care of.
Now our mission is to find food. Not many exciting pictures yet, but that should hopefully change tomorrow...
Manana!
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