Breakfast with a view

We were being picked up from our hotel at 6.40am, so we made sure we were up in good time to take advantage of the buffet breakfast being served in the rooftop restaurant.  The food was very good and we had great views of the river to the back and the station to the front.

Our escort arrived on time to take us to the bus stop where we met our Machu Picchu guide, Julius.  We had a timed entry ticket to the ruins at 8am, so we had to catch one of the 7am fleet of buses to take us on the 25-minute journey to the entrance.  Entry to Machu Picchu is limited to 5000 visitors per day.  Organising such a number of people must be a logistical nightmare, but the authorities seem to be on top of it.

It was raining as we waited to board a bus  but Julius was confident that it would stop and that the low cloud would lift by the time we reached Machu Picchu.Read more