Macchu-Pikachu

Day: 413

With the goal of making our Macchu Pichu day slightly different from everyone elses we have seen, Felicia got the great idea of bringing along a friend with a similar name to make it fully enjoyable.

We were up on the ruins by a little after 6am and enjoyed about 15 minutes of the standard view before the clouds rolled in and the day became a gray cloud. Of course we posed for all our standard MP pics. We we´re thrilled that we managed to see anything and decided to spend the cloudy morning climbing Wayna Pichu (the mountain directly behind all the ruins).  The climb was just as steep as yesterday, but fortunately we weren´t coming up from the valley floor, the bus had done most of the work for us.  After about an hour we made the peak and sat around eating bread and enjoying sporadic views when the clouds cleared for a moment.

Then the clouds decided to stop clearing and we all had to don our raincoats and proceed down the mountain, with its tiny, slippery, Incan steps in the driving rain.  By the time we made it to the bottom, soaking wet, the hordes of day tourists were arriving from Cusco (and would be unable to see anything), and we settled for a bus ride back down to town and a lunch of fine Peruvian-French food.