A week with the Inkas – part 1
A week with the Inkas – part 2
Day 4:
MACHU PICCHU!
What a magical place! The day was extremely foggy, adding more to the mystery around the ancient ruins. (中文請往下) I was up at 4am, to try and catch the sunrise on top, however it was too foggy to see that day.
You can either walk up to Machu Picchu in an hour or take the bus for $12USD one way, lasting 30minutes. Buses are from 5.30-18.00, don’t miss the last one, or you will have to walk! Make sure to take your passport with you, as you need it to buy the bus ticket and for entrance into Machu Picchu.
If you are going up to Machu Picchu by yourself, make sure to buy the entrance ticket beforehand. Months beforehand if you want to also climb the Huayna Picchu or Machu Picchu Mountain inside, as tickets are limited to 400 and 800 people per day respectively. The limit to Machu Picchu is 2,500 per day.
Buy tickets here, it’s slightly confusing as you need to book the slots first, then once you have the reservation code, you can use that to make payment online separately, visa only! Then you need to print out the ticket physically, no e-tickets!
At the gate of the site, there are many guides that you can employ. It’s usually around 2 hours tour, costing 120Sols, so the more people you get, the less you pay! Guides can also go up either of the 2 mountains with you, that’s another price. I ended up negotiating a guide for both the Huayna Picchu and main site tour for 200Sols, spending about 5 hours in total.
The climb up Huayna Picchu was tough, very steep stairs, some pretty narrow that you need to hold on to the wire ropes on the side and use your hands. Although not death defying as people seem to suggest. It’s 2700m high, and once on top you are suppose to see the Machu Picchu city below. Unfortunately the day was foggy and cloudy so I didn’t get a good view, but it was rewarding nevertheless!
There are many temples and alters around the site, some up the mountains, some in the citadel. You can almost hike up to all of them. There’s plenty to see and do here, it’s easy to spend a whole day. I suggest hiring a guide to talk through all the meanings, otherwise you just see a lot of big stones!
With the entrance ticket, you can exit and re-enter the site three times the same day. Make sure you use it wisely as all the facilities are outside the site, like the restaurant, toilets etc. The restaurant offers buffet lunch for $40USD, toilets cost 1Sol. Basically everything cost money up here, so I suggest bring plenty of water and food.
Tip: You can stamp your passport with an official Machu Picchu stamp, located to the left just inside the entrance gate!
Enough of logistic, please enjoy the rest in photos, as words doesn’t do the place justice. Even my photos don’t, you have to see it for yourself!
A week with the Inkas – part 4
Just outside the entrance, foggy Machu Picchu
At the height of the fog, top of Huayna Picchu
In Chinese:
第四天 ~
馬丘比丘
多麼奇神奇的一個地方! 這天 有很濃的大霧，更增添了這個廢墟古城的神秘。我清晨4點就起來希望能夠到山頂上捕捉日出。但是霧太大了，讓我不能夠看到 。
你可以 走路上馬丘比丘，費時1個小時，或者是坐巴士單程12美金，大約費時30分鐘 。巴士是從早上5點半到下午6點，所以不要錯過了最後一班，不然你就只能走路了。確保帶著你的護照，因為買票跟進到馬丘比丘時都要用到它。
假如你是自己到馬丘比丘，確保你要在之前就要買好入口的票， 如果你要攀爬Huayna Picchu 或是進入Machu Picchu Mountain的話，可能幾個月前就要買票， 因為每個地方限制分別是400到800個人/天 ，馬丘比丘則是限制2500個人/天。
買票的 要注意的事~
你要先入網站註冊得到一個號碼，然後再用這個號碼另外上網用信用卡付錢。你還需要把票實體的印出來，不可用電子票券。
到了 入口處，有很多的導遊等著你僱用，通常是兩個小時的行程花費120元。 所以如果越多人分攤就越省。 導遊通常也可以兩個地方都帶你去，當然是另外的價錢。我最終找了一個導遊帶我去兩個地方 ，花200元，全程大約5個小時。
攀爬到Huayna Picchu是很艱難的 ，階梯非常的陡，而且有些地方非常的窄，需要用手抓著旁邊的繩子，但即使這樣也不像有些人說的是在死亡玩命啦！這山是2700公尺高，到了頂上應該是可以看到底下的馬丘比丘城 ，但是因為這天是大霧，而且雲層很厚，所以不能夠看到一個很好的景象，但是無論如何，這一躺還是非常值得的。
這裡有很多的寺廟，或是改造的地方 ，有些是在山上，有些是在城堡，你都可以走上去看看 ，有很多的東西可以看，很多事可以做，很輕易的就花了一整天。我建議是要請一個導遊，因為他可以告訴你所有事情的意義，不然的話你只是看到很多的大石頭。
入場券你可以讓你每天進出這個地方三次，所以確保你要很聰明的使用，因為所有的其他的設施都是在外面，像是餐廳，廁所等等 。餐廳提供自助餐 花費40美元 ，廁所1元。 基本上每樣東西都需要花錢，所以我建議帶充足的水和食物 。
小提醒:
進口處裡面的 左手邊，可以蓋官方的馬丘比丘的印章。
該提醒的都做足了，其它就是享受照片了，文字其實不是能很公平的講述這個地方，即使是我的相片也不能，所以你最好是自己來看一看嘍！
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