We keep hearing about all the people that do the 4 day hike to Macchu Picchu. We talked to 3 girls that had finished this morning. they were young, healthy and ran half marathons to get into shape. It was the altitude that got to them. All of them were from sea level. Now we know why some of the Olympians train in Colorado. We had a nice tour yesterday thru the MP site with a guide. Lunch afterwards in the only hotel that is up on the site (EXPENSIVE) and then Paula and I went back into the site to look around some more, we decided to save our climb up to the guard´s house for tomorrow morning. It was nice to climb and descend at our own pace for a couple of hours. We got back to the town in time for a little festival in their town square and had another Pisco sour. Took a nap then had dinner and crashed because we INTENDED to get up at 4:45am to catch the first buses back up to the site and see the sunrise. Unfortunately the hotel forgot to give us our wakeup call and we didn´t catch the bus until about 6. But we did get up there before the sun had risen above everything. Probably better that we were not climbing all those steps and rocks in the dark .... Went back down to the entrance for potty break and ice cream then back up for an hour more of reading in the shade of one of the ancient ruins. WOW one of those unforgettable moments! - When we went back down for the last time to catch the bus. I fell. Literally on the last step possible before standing in the bus line. Bus driver picked me up. At least it was after we had been to Macchu Picchu. And how many people say they broke their ankle at Macchu Picchu (but I didn't know it was broken at the time so I couldn't use that line till later).
