The train that brought us to the bottom of Machu Piccu. This is not the spendy “Hiram Bingham” version that leaves from Cusco.
Photographic evidence that we were here!
We visited on a couple of cloudy days.
Wild Orchids
Clouds boiling over the Andes.
Looking down on the Machu Piccu site from above
Strange plants growning out from the rock
On the trail to the Sun Gate
Intipunku is the main entrance to Machu Picchu from the Inca Trail. We hiked up here from Machu Piccu for the view, rather than hiking the entire Inca Trail.
On the way up to Intipunku, the Sun Gate.
A clear view from above,
We saw several of these little guys.
If you hike up to the Sun Gate you gotta hike back down.
The Temple of the Condor. The head and body are on the ground in front, the rocks behind form the wings.
The Intihuatana stone is a precise indicator of the date of the two equinoxes.
Stonework at Machu Piccu - looks almost like parts were carved out of butter.
The Intihuatana, or 'Hitching Post of the Sun'
Temple of the Condor detail
Machu Piccu under cloud cover
