The GRANDE Family Holiday - Machu Picchu

The next morning we had an early morning, 5:45am transfer to be exact to the train station where we caught the 6:30 train to Machu Picchu. the train trip took around 4 hours and we saw some great scenery. I slept through the majority of the first 2 hours but after that saw some mountains and greenery.

We arrived and were whipped into awake mode by our guide Darwin. We were a part of quite a large tour group and we did the walk of the ruins. It was pretty spectacular being on top of a mountain looking at ancient ruins that are still standing perfectly. Machu Picchu certainly has a atmosphere around it. Towards the end of our tour it turned very wet, we headed back to the restaurant where we had a great lunch and then we chilled out in the bar with some other Aussie travellers. We returned home to the town of Aguas Calientes around 6 or so and got ready and went for our New Year's dinner which was delish! We then chilled out for New Years but unfortunately we were in a Nature hotel so we didn't have a TV to view any fireworks but it was pretty good.