Machupicchu revege

In 2018, my family decide to go to Peru for the summer vacations. We travel to Arica, where we stay for a while; we toured the city and go to wonderful beaches and drink a lot of delicious tropical fruit juices like mango and maracuya.

To cheapen cost, we do the long ride, we cross the border of Chile and Peru to get to Tagna, one of the cheapest cities I have ever been.

We arrive to Cuzco a few days later after a long bus ride. Cuzco is an exquisite city full of culture and really well mantid, you can tell that is full oriented to tourism, walk through the city we find building and streets from the XIII century.

We stay in a hostel with a very hippi vibe it was very cool, we stay for like 3 days because it was just a stop before go to the Machupicchu ruins, located all most 100 kilometers away from Cuzco, so the day we travel we had to awake really early to prepared everything

I remember wake up a little sore, but I thought I just have a bad rest.

The van travel was dense, full of curves and Peruvian drivers stand out for crazy and fast drives,  so at the time to our first stop I was feeling really sick, but I thought it was for he dizzy travel.

The goal was to get to Aguas calietes a village which is the closest town to the ruins, but there is no direct car drive to Aguas calientes so they let you in an electric boiler10 km away from the town, there you can take the train but is expensive, so all most every body decide to walk there.

The walk was really hard for me, but the view was amazing. We have to walk through the juggle along the train line, sometime we had to run aside for the train to pass.

The walk was deadly to me, like I know I was out of shape, but not that much. I feel like we were walking without direction and that makes me go crazy.

After a 3 hours rut we finally came to Aguas Calientes, I was the tires I have never been in my live, my whole body hurts and I feel that I could not walk anymore.

 (me dying inside)

(me and my baby brother)

Once there, we get to our hostel and rest for a way, I just threw myself into de bed and don't move for a long time, until my tummy star hurt and a run to the bathroom where you know I do what I have to do, in that moment I realize maybe it wasn't just because the long ride, something was wrong in my body, my mom told me that probably I was apunada for the high so go for some fresh air and something to eat may help me, but it wasn't that easy 

In the restaurant I feel like I could hold my body so I put my head in the table and fall sleep, I wake up when the food came but everything disgusted me, even the lights bother me, so I ask my mom if I could just leave to the dorm, my mom realize I have high fiber so she accompanied me to the hostel, my body was shaking for the fiber and the tiredness. I stay there resting and in the room's loneliness I realize what was happening; I drink water straight from the pipe unconsciously a couple times when i was shower the days before; I thought that with so little water nothing would happen but i was so wrong:(

I spend a relative good night, but just thinking that next day we have to wake up at 5 in the morning to climb the 1600 steps that lead you to Machupicchu makes me want to cry.

The next morning we wake up to star our adventure but I still felling terribly so my mom decide we were going to try to cough a bus ticket to Machupicchu, which I think you have to buy it in advance, so with all the good energy we went to the bus stop, meanwhile my dad and my little brother were climbing the 1600 steps to the ruins, with no certain that we were to meet at the top. 

Happily my mom and I could take the bus and we arrived before the guys so we wait them there and when they arrived it was really emotional hahaha.

(the legend himself)

As you can imagine, Machupicchu is an incredibly gigantic piece of history. Peru has done an admirable work taking care and preserving its historical and cultural places,so leaving aside my illness it was a wonderful trip that I will keep in my heart forever, as well as being a good anecdote that now I laugh every time I tell it, and I promised myself to come back to do the trip as I should.