welcome to peru we're eric and sarah and today we're taking you to machu picchu we began
our journey in ollantaytambo we actually stayed the night there last night that's where the
train begins from and it was actually a surprisingly cute little town there's some ruins there
and we just enjoyed walking around and enjoying our evening there and then we took inca rail
all the way here to aguas calientes today or also known as machu picchu pueblo that's
right so you have to take a train from ollantaytambo to machu picchu pueblo and actually this town
is kind of cute so we're a little bit surprised and so we're gonna just kind of explore it
and enjoy our time here
where are we going
i found a way down to the river i feel like probably shouldn't go down this way but we're
doing it it's just a nice river i feel like you should be able to just like go down and
hang out on it but there is no one hanging out by it but we don't like people so we left
town and here we are
well that pretty much sums up our short tour of machu picchu pueblo we gotta get up super
early tomorrow morning so we're gonna rest up for the evening so we'll see you then okay
so it is what time in the morning five o'clock in the morning five o'clock in the morning
and we're headed to the bus our goal is to be on the very first bus that leaves at 5
30 and be the very first ones at the top so that there's not too many people there so
we'll see what happens
only a few people in front of us way face shield time ready to roll
okay that was insanely stressful because he kept saying that our ticket was not actually
the ticket because we were just showing him the email receipt which had a scanner bar
thing on it and he was like you have to go two blocks up the street to get your ticket
we're like what are you talking about but it was attached to the email as a pdf so we
got it and we're on the very first bus so we're all good and we're going with our friends
drew and alex here they got their stuff sorted out how you guys doing good stoked this is
drew and alex you should follow their channel they're also awesome and they love mornings
love a good morning alex loves mornings i'm ready for a nap how about it sarah
we're here okay after a half an hour bus ride and a few complications with our tickets and
tripod we have made it to machu picchu and it's all gonna be worth it now we're just
gonna enjoy it the bus the first bus leaves at 5 30 it leaves every 10 minutes so you
can come whenever you want but we want to be here right at six when it opens so oh my
goodness hopefully there's not too many people look at this view already
we're literally the first ones in here this is amazing wow
look at this full view right now wow
well i can't actually believe that we're here this is insane we got here and there was absolutely
no one at the top perfect conditions yeah behind us it's so nice this is this incredible
sun is just rising there was no one here so we could take all our own photos for like
10 15 minutes and it is just beautiful i am way too in love with this what do you think
of this oh it's so amazing there's no one here look there's no one there's just llamas
that's it awesome some llamas oh what so i would definitely say coming here really early
as early as you can is the best way to come to machu picchu we got here at like six o'clock
we took the 5 30 bus i know you can also hike here there's the inca trail and the salkantay
trek and those ones i think the inca trail at least you actually arrive here at machu
picchu so if you're into hiking or trekking definitely check out the inca trail we did
not do it because just for physical reasons i don't think i'd be able to do with my knee
or anything but man it is just incredible here this is
sometimes you just need to take a breath and actually just enjoy it it's incredible
this is crazy incredible we're at like at the most famous photo spot it is just so beautiful
the sun's just coming up and wow what is this we got our ponchos on oh yeah of course you
gotta get the obligatory poncho picture how peruvian are we right now not peruvian at
all
right how touristy are we oh it's just so amazing i can't it doesn't feel real no it
feels amazing 6 45 in the morning wow this is perfect i love it okay so the most annoying
part about up here is that you can't go backwards once you go down so we've been just trying
to take our nice photos and videos and this guy keeps telling us that we have to move
on and he's uh he's threatening drew and alex said he's gonna call the police and he's actually
ridiculous it's just like there's no one here it doesn't matter like why can't we just enjoy
it and take it in it's annoying that they like rushing through
and there's like no one up here like who cares if we're taking a few more photos i don't
know who needs to see this but it's kind of a load of garbage to really push us along
when really we don't need to because there's not that many people here we're actually fine
right now i understand that there was like hordes of people in the afternoon of course
we'd move but like literally there's there's no one here no one here well now we gotta
move on so it's good it's nice it's really beautiful still here this morning so beautiful
through oh man i could just stay here forever i kind of want to i would if we could would
if we could but clearly we're not allowed to
so now we're actually getting a chance to walk like through the ruins and it's beautiful
all the stonework and everything it's it's crazy because i believe machu picchu was um
created in like the 1400s which like yeah that's still like 600 years ago but it's actually
not that long ago i always forget that like that's actually like when people first started
coming to america and south america and uh yeah and this is just incredible what do you
got there i don't know there's all these little houses but you can't go inside well they look
cool look how cute this is see id totally live in there oh yeah all you need is a little
roof yeah i'd camp
wow
how does it feel being here i feel weird just like being here yeah it's kind of weird it's
like a mystical place and then you're just here what i wonder is whether machu picchu
would actually be as famous if there wasn't this mountain behind like it's just such a
signature mountain with this community but like if you didn't have that mountain would
it just be like some weird rocks and it's just picturesque you know i know it's just
like it's just like perfect but would it be as famous if it didn't have like or would
it be perfectly framed mountain behind or even as well preserved yeah would anyone care
if you didn't you can take a photo with this mountain behind i don't know this is crazy
look at this valley right now this is insane they really just built this on the edge of
a cliff i don't know how they got all these supplies up here it's insane wow i think they
probably just kicked it off the mountain you know they probably just hack away at the rocks
yeah but like anytime you have to go get food you have to walk forever to find it that's
true good point unless they just had llamas there's llamas look at them how peruvian is
this hey you gonna hug him again yeah i did give one a big hug one time it was really
nice how you doing oh he stopped chewing nice to meet you watch out i'd rather not be spat
on today i don't know i think he's going to get you it's kind of like i eat definitely
like you
i'm trying to call my mom we're gonna facetime her we just facetimed eric's mom and it's
really funny because we're just at machu picchu
hello we're at machu picchu that's crazy
yeah we realized we had full bars so we thought it was funny to call you
oh wow yeah it's beautiful there okay well we'll call soon again say bye to machu picchu
bye
that was funny i don't know why that's so funny to me we just had full bars so we called
both our parents and it's just funny to be like at machu picchu and showing your parents
i don't know i just think that's hilarious for some reason all righty well that's machu
picchu that's machu picchu so this has been our little i don't know adventure here and
it's really totally worth it in my opinion it actually is worth the money it's it's a
lot of money yeah we're gonna put all the prices on the at the very end so make sure
you watch the end it is worth money definitely wish we were rushed along yeah technically
you they say you have four hours but like we've only been here for three and we were
pretty rushed along yeah but it is super cool i definitely definitely come here like um
i don't know i would i would say you could you could go with a guide but you will be
moved around like a lot faster yeah uh we went without one and we really enjoyed our
time honestly it was wonderful yeah so now we just take a bus back to aguas calientes
and then we're going to take a train all the way back to cusco no train to ollantaytambo
bus back to cusco now so yeah yeah we still have a bit of a journey ahead of us but we're
going to leave you here all of the costs for machu picchu how to get to aguas calientes
or machu picchu pueblo and the train and everything we're going to put at the end of this video
so um yeah watch the end and we'll see you in the next one thanks for watching