Day 4
Get up at 03:30! Yes, you read it correctly, 03:30 AM. We had breakfast at 04:00 and started to hike at 04:15 for about 10 minutes to reach the entrance gate. There we learned that the gate only opens at 05:30… So we had to wait for about 1 hour, but hey, at least we were early in the queue…
Once the gate opened we had to hike for another hour I think and about 10 minutes before reaching the Sun Gate you have to conquer the Gringo Killer which is a nearly vertical set of 50 huge stairs. This was heavy! After that it goes gently up to the entrance of the Sun Gate. We arrived and it was… cloudy. We did see a thing!
We decided to eat a bit and to wait a bit. Plenty of people started to go down but we were not in a hurry. After 15 minutes when we wanted to move on suddenly the weather cleared. We heard it can change in 1 minute and it’s really true. We were able to see some glimps of Machu Picchu but still not like we wanted. What followed was clouds going and coming. Every now and then we could see Machu Picchu but it was not clear enough to take pictures. In the end it’s not that important, as the best pictures are taken closer to Machu Picchu, at the “postal card picture spot”.
Geweldige prestatie Tom en MC. Was leuk om samen met jullie (en vele anderen uiteraard) 3 weken door Peru en de Amazone te trekken. Veel gezien, lekker gegeten en vooral veel geklommen. Bedankt voor de gezelligheid en Djoser bedankt voor de voortreffelijke organisatie en dito begeleiding.
Wat een geweldig verhaal! Prachtige foto’s! Zo zijn we er toch nog een beetje bij. Goed gedaan! Complimenten hoor!!