Wannapicchu

Today we decided to get up early and try to make it to the top of Wannapicchu (The ruin that over-looks MachuPicchu). We arrived at Machupicchu at 8am and headed up the trail. What a climb it was, we were exhausted at the top. But the view was well worth the trip. At least when it wasn´t blocked by the clouds. After a few minutes at the top, we decided to find the geocache. This was also the same way we were going to see the Temple of the Moon. We found the cache without any problems, so we headed off to the Temple of the Moon. This trail was interesting, it wound around the mountain through the rain forest. We even had to go down a couple of ladders. The temple was located in a cave, well actually, it was under a BIG rock. It took us almost an hour to reach the temple and now we had to head back to Machupicchu. This was almost all uphill, ugh. We had some great views on our way back. The jungle was really neat. We arrived at Aquas Callientas around 12:30 and had some yummy chicken noodle soup for lunch. We head back to Cusco on the 3:30pm train. Then tomorrow we are off to Colombia where we will see Ricardo and Angela. We will update from there.
Rick and Jeanne