After five days of stunning trekking we woke up at 330am to join the line of shadows climbing up the stairs. We watched the sun rise over the city in the mountains, wound through the buildings and then climbed the mountain wayna picchu for a better view.
After returning to Aguas Calientes we waited nine hours for our train which was supposed to bring us back to Cusco at about midnight. Unfortunately the Peruvian's ability to protest may even rival the french´s. Frusterated by the private companies like Coca Cola owning all the clean water in the area and then making it so expensive they can't afford it, they blocked all roads to Cusco. By 7am with the curtains pulled so the many drunk protesters wouldnt see us, we had been driving around the city all night trying to find a way in. Finally we hopped out of the bus and decided to walk. We stepped over the newly cut trees blocking the road and walked silently through a crowd of villagers before luckily catching a local van into the city which just barely got out in time before the police closed the road.
By 8am we crawled into our beds!
Lizzie
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