Day 64 & 65: Machu Picchu
(Sorry for the hiatus, wifi was really erratic in Peru. Anyway, on to the blog posts.) The morning after arriving in Cusco, it was off to Aguas Calientes. To get there, we had to catch our train from Ollantaytambo in the Sacred Valley. From Cusco, we took a colectivo to Ollantaytambo. Colectivos are vans that can accommodate about 12-15 passengers, and are popular means of transport between the towns in the province. We headed to Pavitos street in Cusco where most all the colectivos leave from. It's not hard to find a van; as soon as we got off the taxi there were about a dozen men in our face asking if we needed a colectivo . The ride to Ollantaytambo was about an hour and a half long and cost us S/.10 (about US$3.5). In Ollantaytambo we picked up our tickets at the ticket booths, and then we were told that we were only allowed to bring a bag of 5 kg each on the train! So we ended up leaving our backpacks in the secure luggage storage at the ticket station, and just took ou...