South America

Yes, finally the D-Day had come!!! I remember I woke up very early as I had a 5.37am train to catch. Luckily, I stayed very near to the train station, as far as I could remember, 5 - 10 minutes walking distance.

From Ollantaytambo to Machu Picchu, trains are the only way. I arrived in Machu Picchu at around 7am and took a tour bus going up the hill. I couldn't remember how long was the bus ride, it was smooth not bumpy. However, I do remember the road was very narrow. I even remember there was a girl in front of me, took a peek by pulling the bus window curtain and said excitedly, yes excitedly, to her mom, "The bus was so close to the cliff!" 😅

Anyway, as soon as I got off the bus, the VIEW was blowing off my mind 😱TOTALLY LOVED IT!!🤩 What showed in my photos were way underrated!! 😉

NOTE: Machu Picchu was a symbol of the Incan Empire. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983 and was named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2007.

Picture 1: The angle where most tourists would take a photo 😂

Picture 2: Interior of an Inca building, featuring trapezoidal windows.

Picture 3: Yes, I was standing on the mountain ledge!! Looking back, I think I was very stupid to listen to the tour guide. Yes, the tour guide asked us to stand on the ledge for a photograph. Really, it was quite dangerous. What's behind me was a valley that was at least 2000 meter in elevation, about a 600-storey skyscraper (I think) 😬

Pictutre 4: Llama, cute eh 🤩

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After visiting Machu Picchu, I took an overnight bus (yet another) from Cusco to Nazca. It was a 14 hours journey, I arrived in Nazca around 8am the next day ✌🏼

Then I went to a bus station, planning to take a bus to the airport for a flight over Nazca Lines. However, as most Peruvians didn't speak English back then, and smart phones weren't that common back then, I used drawing to communicate with the bus station staff 😁, pandai kan 🤣? Well it failed and didn't work out as she couldn't understand my drawings 🤣

But luckily, there was a taxi driver standing by the fence calling out to me, he spoke English! He said he could bring me to the airport. Yes 😍!! However, as soon as I sat inside the taxi, I realized he was probably not a legal taxi driver, like one of those illegal one 霸王车 in Malaysia. I started to worry especially when he passed through woods. At that point, I even put my hand on the car lock so would jump off the car if needed 🤣But luckily, after a few minutes, we came out from the woods and passing through a plain grounds, phew😅 Thanks God!!

After arriving the aiport, I took a plane and had a 30 minutes flight over the Nazca Lines 😁 So, what's my verdict on the trip? Well frankly, I think I probably didn't know how to appreciate the view of this UNESCO World Heritage site 😂

Fyi.. Nazca Lines are known as geoglyphs – drawings on the ground made by removing rocks and earth to create a “negative” image. Scientists believe that the majority of lines were made by the Nasca people, who flourished from around A.D. 1 to 700 😱 But strange though, why would they made an image of an astronaut 1500 years ago? Or.. is that an image of an alien? 🤔

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