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From: jerryp@tektronix.UUCP (Jerry Peek)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Re: Macchu-Picchu
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Date: Mon, 2-Apr-84 01:29:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  2 01:29:10 1984
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Fly to Cuzco.  The train station is a little ways from the airport, but you
shoudln't have any trouble getting a taxi (ask what the fare will be BEFORE
you accept a ride, though).  Be prepared for the altitude; don't plan on
exercising too much, but DO spend some time in Cuzco!  It's a fascinating
place, though it also can be a turista-trap.

There are two classes of trains.  Be sure to take the tourist class -- it's
more expensive, but worth it, unless you enjoy being crammed into a train!
(We saw the standard-price train going by, en-route to Machu Picchu...
there were people hanging off the sides.)

There's a tourist ticket packet available that has a train ticket,
plus a bus ticket to get from the train to the ruins and an admission ticket
into the ruins.  Good idea; it saves time and hassles.

Prepare yourself for arrival at the train station in the valley beneath
Machu Picchu (get off the left-hand side of the train).  Why?  Unless they
have the new tramway finished, the way you get to the ruins is a fleet of
small buses.  As soon as the train stops, people will RUN through the station,
to the queues for the buses out back.  HURRY!  A minute wasted here can lose
you a couple of hours, waiting in the back of the line, that you could be
spending at the ruins.  The return train leaves five hours later, so time is
precious.

There's a small hotel at the ruins, but it's booked up way ahead of time.
Bring a lunch; there's a cafeteria, but it's outrageously expensive.

WATCH YOUR WALLET, especially in the Cuzco train station.  There are expert
pickpockets.

Enjoy.  Machu Picchu is an incredible place.  Read up on it before you go,
too... it'll add to the experience.


--Jerry Peek
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