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Can Can in Chan Chan Looks like Cake So we hung around Ica for the day before we left. We were doing one of the awkward overnight busses. The busses here are great, more leg room than planes and quite comfortable seats, the toilets are questionable though... Despite this however the busses are great and make a good way to do long distance travel for a much lower cost. The only problem is the akward hanging around for the day, which is what we're doing today to go to Cuenca . Ica was great though, left our bags at the hostel after our late check out and went and had a really good pizza. We then caught our taxi to the Flores terminal. In order to go to Trujillo we had to go through Lima which has a variety of singular bus company terminals and other busses as well. We knew roughly the area we wanted to get to in order to just cross the road to another terminal towards Trujillo. Flores was the ideal company, but when we arrived we discovered that they actually went to Trujil

Cloud Stomping upon the Mountain Tops The Mighty Machu Picchu Aguas Calientes  We left Cusco at eight in the morning and drove a very scary taxi ride to a town call Ollantaytambo to catch our train to Machu Picchu Pueblo, or Aguas Calientes, or Machu Picchu village, there are a lot of names. I feel we were particularly on edge as despite asking for a different taxi driver, we ended up with the one who had involved us in a car accident and then overcharged us, a mere few days beforehand. This wasn't the greatest of starts to our journey into the mountains. The ride itself consisted of beautiful scenery rushing past at maniacal speeds. The occasional car that we nearly hit as we dangerously overtook a lorry. But also many beautifully constructed Incan ruins. Though perhaps the most curious thing we saw was a hotel perched in glass tubes on a cliff, no thanks... The grey specks on the top right are hotels Ollantaytambo was no exception to the beauty of Peru . Mountai