Peru Rail

To get to Machu Picchu from Cuzco right now, you need to take a bus to Ollantytambo then you take a train to Aguas Calientes.  Then you buy a bus ticket at the bottom of the hill and take a bus up to Machu Picchu.  You used to be able to take a train all the way from Cuzco to Aguas Calientes, but a storm washed out the tracks a few years ago.

The train is really nice.  It is a fun trip and they feed you!

The scenery is beautiful.  It happens to look a lot like Montana, except with orchids and palm plants everywhere.  The only bummer was seeing how much trash is thrown into the Urubamba.  The Urubamba is that large, fast flowing, brown river you see in all the photos.  It is brown because of the amount of sediment it travels every day.  Lots and lots of mud.

Although the brown is a little unappetizing, it does look like a magnificent river to white water raft.