More photos from the hike to Machu Picchu...
The group atop the mountain pass...
Pretty view on the way back down...
An example of the houses out in this part of Peru in the middle of nowhere...we camped near these houses on our second night...
Pretty landscape...of the joys of walking downhill after 4+ hours straight up...
As we made our way back down the mountain the leaves and trees started changing...before we camped for the night the landscape was completely different because we had started to enter a rainforest...it was crazy to think just hours before we were atop a mountain pass with snow and now we we about to enter a tropical climate...
A waterfall on the way...this particular one was pretty unique because it had 7 different falling points, 3 of which you can see in the picture...
Pretty picture of the valley we walked through...
Here's a turkey, not sure why this is so special...I mean we have these ugly things back home...(oh yea I almost forgot, Kerry went to Virginia Tech home of the "Hokies"..a mythical bird with supposed special powers...hey I am just reporting the facts here)...but really this bird kept strutting its stuff during one of our breaks while we relaxed...
Now back to the important pictures...fresh passion fruit from a tree on the hike...you crack open the shell and this soft, sweet fruit is inside, its really good!!
Because of the massive flooding in the area earlier this year the local roads and bridges were completely wiped out...they have been forced to use this cable care system in order to get people from one side of the river to the other...here are some pictures from our little ride...
There were no seat belts on this ride, you just packed yourself and all your gear onto this little platform and off you went ziplining across a ravine...some idiots even stood up for the trip...
Although extremely dangerous I had time to take this quick phot
Finally made it to the train that took us to Aguas Calientes, at the bottom of the Machu Picchu mountain!
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