We were up relatively early and had breakfast in the dining room, watching the hummingbirds in the bushes just outside the windows. We had tickets to go into Machu Picchu again this morning, but it was rather overcast and rainy and we had had such an incredible day yesterday that we decided we really didn’t need to go back in.
We had a late checkout so spent most of the morning in the room working on photos and other things. Just before heading out we saw Mark and Susan Miller in the lounge so stopped to visit a bit. They had gone in that morning on the lower, easier route and said it was much easier than the route the day before.
We caught a bus down to the town. When we got there, we noticed that the lines
for the buses to take people up to Machu Picchu looked to be several blocks
long. Probably people up for a day trip as it is the weekend.
We waited a bit for the bellman from the hotel to show up and then decided the instructions for meeting were sufficiently vague that we weren't sure we would connect. So we got some directions and walked to our new hotel. The town is very snuggly situated along a river.
On the walk we also saw some unusual sculptures.
The hotel is at the end of a long street and down some stairs and up some more stairs. It is built into the hillside (everything here is hillside as there is almost no flat land anywhere) with rough stairs through a lush, jungle like setting. It is really lovely.
We had lunch in the dining room with views down the
valley (and the train rails...just outside the window). Then we spent the rest of the
day working on photos and other stuff.
We spent most of that time shivering as it was cold in the room and we
could find no thermostat on the walls.
Turns out we were looking too high…there was a wall heater panel on the
wall (fairly low). Once we found that and
got it up and running the room heated up to a comfortable temperate.
Later it was back down to the dining room for a light dinner
and then back to the room. It was sort
of good not having things to get to or schedules to meet. Down time is good.
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