Had a great afternoon chatting to the hostel owner about her life in the town and working in the hostel. Her husband's a guide and usually does one day trips so he can see their baby every night, beautiful friendly kid called Axel. Great fun.
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| Axel, hostel owner (don't know her name!) and me |
Then had to get a taxi to train station. Taxi came late, but he was v interesting, as we were driving along, he pointed out and told me about the landslides which wiped out the train line back in 98, and a new line had to be built for the tourism trade. The photos below show one of the many landslides which wiped out the tracks.
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| Landslide, in the bottom right corner is the tunnel through which the train used to travel before the line was wiped out by this landslide! |
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| Landslide from further away |
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| New road since the heavy floods earlier in 2010 - Machu Picchu was shut to the public for first three months of 2010 as a result of the floods |
Caught the train with v sound Chilean pair but it was almost impossible to understand a word they said! They spoke really quickly and their accent is v v different to usual Spanish.
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| The Chilean lads and me |
Met the tour again and after dinner, off to bed. Silvio was leaving us so we'd a group shot and I'd a goodbye photo with Silvio too:
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| Me and Silvio the guide - very sound lad |
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| Tour group - Rob, Justin, Evan, Tim, Matt, Rosie, Rich, Silvio and me |
Sadly there's an election this wkend here in Peru and one of the candidates was staging a concert for the locals. The noise was off the scale. In a town where practically everyone there had to get up between 4 and 5 in the morning, this was ludicrous. sleeping simply not an option. Nightmare. I've to be up for 5, i'm taking the bus, no notion of walking!
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