We had an optional tour to climb the Machu Picchu mountain today. 6 of us (instead of 8 signed up for the tour) waited at 5am for the bus to take us back to Machu Picchu. We learned the bus line was longer than yesterday, and some of the youngsters who were in line the night before in order to skip hotel staying.
We tried to book the Huayna Picchu with Friendly Planet in January, 2018. We were told by them on May 31,2019 that they could not get tickets for Hyayna Picchu and offered us the climbing of Machu Picchu Mountain. We had no other choice but took the Machu Picchu Mountain option. To our understanding, Hyayna Picchu is a shorter climb but more exciting than the Machu Picchu Mountain. This is one of our complaints about Friendly Planet’s lacking of pre-planning effort.
We entered Machu Picchu entrance at 7am and arrived to the Machu Picchu Mountain entrance at 7:20am. They had checked our passports 4 times before we finally checked-in to the Machu Picchu Mountain entrance point to start our self guided tour. There were a lot of high steps for climbing. It was a struggle for some of us, but we all climbed to the top around 9:40AM. The view on the top is breathtaking. The elevation at the top is 3061M (about 10042 ft).
The climbing down of Machu Picchu was equally difficult. It took some of us more than 2 1/2 hours to get down to the bus station. It was a thrill and tiring day for most of us.
While we were climbing, we were able to overlooking Machu Picchu from different elevations. It doesn't matter of which elevation points, the overlooking of the whole Machu Picchu is just breathtaking.
This afternoon, we traveled back to Ollantaytambo station by Vistadome train, then continued to Cusco by motor coach and checked into Novotel in Cusco.
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