Trek Day 4

I woke up in the morning, ate breakfast and we started our trek. We walked along a trail until we reached Hydroelectrica. This city is a check point for Machu Picchu and you must sign in with your passport number to continue. After this check point we reached a small little town and there we ate lunch. After lunch we paid the cooks to bring our bags from this small town to Aguas Calientes (Hot Springs or Hot Waters) where we would spend our last night before Machu Picchu.

We then walked along the train tracks to Aguas Calientes. This would seem very easy because it is flat, but walking along train tracks in Peru is very hard. Each railroad tie is set a little differently and there is hardly any regularity to it. If you don´t walk on the railroad ties, you walk on shell rock which makes it really easy to trip and fall --- especially if you are me. So it took a lot of concentration. Along the walk we could see part of Machu Picchu from the trek. It was pretty exciting and kept you going.

Finally we arrived in Aguas Calientes, the front door to Machu Picchu. We each got placed in our Hostals and I took a much needed hot shower. It was so wonderful. :)

After my shower I went out for a burger with my ´roommate´ Alex. We both felt like we deserved a nice American treat. After that we went to our real dinner that the cooks made for us. After that dinner, it was fish and was not very good, I went out with the Germans for some pizza. So I had three dinners, which, yes Mom, I know is bad, but I had just walked so much, I deserved it. I returned to the hostal where I found a huge spider on the wall. I picked it up with a towel and tried to throw it out of the window, but it climbed out of the towel and I just threw the entire towel out of the window. You would do the same if you saw the size of this spider. (I am just glad that I did not see any snakes, I hate them much more.)

After I closed the window and assured myself that there weren´t any other creepy crawling things in my room, I went to bed.