Elder Bloomer's Solo Visits Machu Picchu March 4, 2013

While Kris was recovering in Lima and refusing to return to anything above 5,000 feet in altitude, I snuck off to Macchu Picchu. It was an exciting overnight trip full of Peruvian History, Inca runes, and a spectacular landscape. Macchu Picchu is much lower than Cusco, but Kris had had her fill of the Peruvian Andes.  The geography in the Urabamba Valley is different than anyplace I have been in Peru and the area certainly deserves the name Sacred Valley. 

                                It was a quick spectacular one day trip. (Downtown Ollantaytambo)

                             Almost every hillside near Machu Picchu has been terraced with heavy magnificent stone work. The entire area is an impressive ecosystem of agriculture that supported a huge Inca population and lost to history until rediscovered in 1911.

                                                Urabamba River during the Rainy Season.

                                                The Train Station in Ollantaytambo

Visiting Cusco without Kris

                                                             City Streets in Cusco