This last part shows our arrival in Aguas Calientes. In true Peruvian fashion, there was a parade to meet us as we came into town. Ruben and I planned to hike another mountain overlooking Machu Picchu called Putukusi. It started out really fabulously. The secret stairs to the right of the train tracks were mysterious and alluring. The path was gorgeous and different from what we'd been hiking for the last four days. We even had a dog that decided to hike along with us (we had two but one left after we met the first obstacle). Unfortunately this hike has a lot of straight up faces of the mountain/rock that require ladders to ascend, and the rains destroyed the ladders. We climbed around the first broken one and Ruben climbed pretty high on the second set, but we decided even if we could get up, it would be pretty dangerous to come back down since the rocks are covered in slippery moss. We'll have to go back another time when the ladders have been rebuilt.
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