So the day finally arrived to go to Machu Picchu!!! We wanted to get there early to miss the crowds, so it was up at 4am, out by 4.40am to head to the bus stop. Already groups were walking down. After a 50 minute wait for the bus service to run, we were on the second bus. We arrived at the entrance early and had to wait for the site to open. We were about the 60/61st people to enter. It was a little uphill stroll to the caretaker hut (which still left Stevie pa...

Our train is booked for 7.45am, so we woke up around 5am to pack, get washed and head to the train station. We needed to get there 30 mins before. We arrive and order expensive gross coco leaf tea, only the pan de chocolate hides the taste. We realise that we are not sitting next to each other, but luckily the guy who is next to me wants to swap with Stevie so we end up together in the end. The train is built like an old stream train. Blue with Peru rail on th...

We had nothing to get up for today so we took advantage of this and had a lay in! After washing (hot showers again...score) and dressing we had our free breakfast of rolls with butter and jam and then set off into the city for another wonder....Mark has decided to buy badges for the countries we will be going to next so he can stop stressing about finding them every time we get somewhere new!.....we eventually end up in the Inca museum which was pretty interestin...

As we used the same bus company as before we thought we would be travelling in luxury. We had the pillow, wifi, blanket, reclining seats, but not the road!! As Cuzco is 3000m above us the road zigzagged all the way, or the driver was drunk. We literally was flying from one side of the seat to the other depending on which way the bus turned. Minimal sleep. We both woke up tired and feeling sick. Stevie eventually was sick in the toilet while simultaneously passing...

Our bus to Cusco was booked for 9.45 do we had a whole day to kill. We wanted a lay-in as our day trip was not until 2.30, but the tour guide knocked on our door last night and moved it to 8am. Waking up with a coffee and wearing all the clothes from yesterday, we were picked up at our hostel in the sand buggy. en route we picked up a Chinese family. 15minutes out of town we went off road. The only house we passed on the dirt track had a small dog out side tha...