{"id":3633,"date":"2015-10-14T22:34:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T21:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2017-11-26T11:27:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T10:27:56","slug":"2015-05-30-aguas-calientes-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/?p=3633","title":{"rendered":"2015-05-30: Aguas Calientes (1\/3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We started our journey to another highlight of South America: Machu Picchu. We got up\u00a0 early, and took a taxi to Poroy Station. We then boarded the train that took us with light speed to Aguas Calientes —\u00a0 well, not quite. But we travelled in style. To much of Felix’s delight, we spend most of journey playing MEMORY.<\/p>\n

Aguas Calientes is a decent little town deep in the Urubamba valley.\u00a0 Machu Picchu is about 20 minutes away by bus. The option to walk along the steep road winding up to Macchu Picchu certainly exists as well. This takes several hours, and judging from the facial expression of those arriving on the top, it is not really recommendable.\u00a0 Virtually all tourists use Aguas Calientes as stepping stone to Machu Picchu, and stay a couple of hours to up to 2 days.\u00a0 It is only accessible by train. All buses running from Aguas Calientes to Machu Picchu were brought in by train car.<\/p>\n

After our arrival, Gisela directly went to attend a cooking class. In the meanwhile, Felix and myself prepared for the visit of\u00a0 Machu Pichhu, and took a long\u00a0 walk to the Museo de Sitio Manuel Chavez Ballon, an archaeological museum. Here,\u00a0 we learned about the construction, discovery,\u00a0 and history of the Inca city of Machu Picchu. Felix was particularly impressed about a couple of photographies taken by Hiram Bingham during his rediscovery of Machu Picchu, a reconstruction of an Inca grave with sitting skeletons, and tableau showing a cross section of terraces. The Inca used the terraces to plant corn. They filled them up with different layers of soil, cobble and pebble stones to manage the water balance thereby allowing for irrigation while at the same time preventing erosion.<\/p>\n

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Cusco: View over Cusco from Window of (Renacimiento Apartamentos & Hostal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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En Route to Aguas Calientes: Poroy Train Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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En Route to Aguas Calientes: Waiting Room in Poroy Train Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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En Route to Aguas Calientes: Meadow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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En Route to Aguas Calientes: Field<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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En Route to Aguas Calientes: Peasant walking on Field<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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En Route to Aguas Calientes: People taking Pictures from Train Car<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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En Route to Aguas Calientes: For some part of the journey, the train tracks followed a river<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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En Route to Aguas Calientes: Train Station from Where the Inca Trail Starts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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En Route to Aguas Calientes: A Lodge (skylodge-adventure-suites) glued to the Mountain Walls — I wonder how to get there. The view from there is certainly spectacular…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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En Route to Aguas Calientes: River close to Aguas Calientes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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En Route to Aguas Calientes: Gisela<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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En Route to Aguas Calientes: Non-Active Vulcano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Aguas Calientes: Train Car that took us from Poroy to Aguas Calientes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Aguas Calientes: Deboarding the Train<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Aguas Calientes: Market directly in Front of Train Station — There is no way of avoiding it \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Aguas Calientes: River through Town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We started our journey to another highlight of South America: Machu Picchu. We got up\u00a0 early, and took a taxi to Poroy Station. We then boarded the train that took us with light speed to Aguas Calientes —\u00a0 well, not quite. But we travelled in style. To much of Felix’s delight, we spend most of … Continue reading 2015-05-30: Aguas Calientes (1\/3)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4519,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions\/4519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}