Photo's Machu Picchu (go with  top to the upper part of the table)
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Train tour with end station  Aguas Calientes
The train in Peru is not the same as the train in Holland.  At every station sales people enter the train and sell things like tea, bread etc. Then you hear the train hoot. The sale of tea etc. just continues. Then the train start to move very slowly. The sales persons continue their sales, but are getting in a rush. The train moves more quickly and the sales persons jump out of the train. Finaly the trains does drive with a normal speed. The last station of the tour is  Aguas Calientes. Actualy there's no station; the train just stops in the middle of the main street of Aguas Calientes. In Holland it's absolutely forbidden to walk on the rails, in Aquas Callientes it's normal to walk on the rails. When the train isn't there, you would think they didn't use the rails anymore. So when the trains arives in Aquas Calientes it drives slowly and does hoot a lot.

Aguas Calientes is nearby the famous Machu Picchu. Staying in Aquas Calientes does have the advantage that when you visit Machu Picchu you're one of the first persons. In the afternoon the buses from  Cuzco arive, so then  Machu Picchu does have more tourists. When you want to be one of the first persons to in  Machu Picchu, you have to walk the Inca Trail.

Inca Trail
You can go to Machu Picchu by bus or by feet. When you walk to Machu picchu you folow the Inca trail. These are trails made by the Inca's. The Inca trail does cost 3 days and is proberbly a very beatiful trip in nature. At the end of the trail, you can see the sun get up in  Machu Picchu. You're also one of the first to enter the site.I myself didn't do the Inca trail, because I also wanted to see the city of Cuzco.

Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu is discovered in 1911, so the Spanish didn't destroy this site. It's not clear what was the function of Machu Piccho. Some people think it was a little town, other think it was a holy town only for priests. Scientist suspect that the sun was very important for the Inca's, but there're a lot of mysteries they still have to solve.

Next to Machu Picchu you see a mountain, the Huayna Picchu . You can also climb this mountain and at the end you have a nice view over  Machu Picchu. It's a long walk, but worth the effort. Tip: climb in a steady tempo. When I started my climb, I was passed by two young persons who realy were walking fast. Half way I passed these young persons, who were exhausted. I supose it's realy frustrating to be passed by a person who's not walking fast. The Huayna Picchu is closed at about 3PM..