My walk Club is growing and Maryann visited us several months ago. She walked the streets of Edinburg. She was excited because she was looking forward to her adventures in Peru. Here is an excerpt from Maryann's email:
Its been an incredible day. we took the train to machu picchu, got there at 9am and the entire valley was completely fogged in!! i thought i´d come a long way to see all this fog but it started clearing up. it lifted as we were taking our guided tour around the entire site. it is incredible, we saw it appear gradually before our eyes as the fog lifted. we had a very good guide who escorted us through all the areas and explained about the history of the incas, hiriam bingham´s discovery in 1911, found it was covered with vegetation. a local farmer and young boy took brought him here. it is stunning to see all these ruins surrounded by incredibly high green mountains, the andes, shaped like bullets. we hiked all over the ruins, big rocks, steep stairs, after the tour yolanda and i decided to continue to trek up the inca trail that the trekkers still take when they hike in, there are many trails around, 2 or 4 day trips.. that would be too long and rough for me. i´m glad i did this now, some of the tour people had trouble going up and down all the rocks steps. we hiked another hour up to the porta del sol (gate of the sun). <it was an incredible view from there, the classic post card of machu picchu. i have lots of stories to tell, can´t wait to talk with you. it was about 5 hours of hiking, it rained on our way down, slippery rocks but we made it and loved every minute of it. weather has been perfect. <i will sleep good tonight.
i am in an internet cafe in the city of machu picchu, we´ll leave tomorrow after seeing some other things around town back to Cuzco which we really enjoyed too.
I hope you enjoyed Maryann's adventure. Go have your own adventure walking today.
Keep walkin,
Ron
Postponed till tomorrow, taking hiking adventure with local hiking group. »
