To get to Macchu Picchu you ride a bus that winds around a mostly one lane dirt road (pictured above). There are probably a fleet of 30 or more buses that make the round trip many times throughout the day. It is amazing that they do not have daily accidents because the buses are generally going around blind hairpin turns. There is a lot of stopping and backing up so that the buses can get to a wider part of the road to pass each other. Maybe to keep our minds off of the harrowing driving experience, they have young boys in native costume that run down the 7 or 8 mile road waving at our bus at each bend. Granted they take the steep stairs that cut thru all the hair pin turns but you can tell that they are getting quite a workout in their sandals. At the bottom they climb on the bus and take donations. Yep, we made our contribution for that bit of waving entertainment. I hope they get to ride back up instead of climbing up.
