This is a three part series so you must go down and start at 1-machu picchu.
It has come out all upside down,back to front,start from finish.Sorry bout the inconvenience,any complaints mail to someone else.
HE HE,anyway this is where it gets even funnier.
There is another huge peak that sits behind machu picchu.You can see it in all those famous photo's and its called Wanu Picchu (i think). Anyway it's a bit of a dangerous climb and dangerously situated on a verticle mountain.So to get in here you need to lineup and sign your name in at a registry point and show your ticket number.I guess they do this so they know when someone goes missing,if they don't sign out at the end of the day they are probably dead 8000 metres down and need rescuing.
So of course we could'nt get into here,well not easily anyway because we did'nt have a ticket for them to get our number.Soooo,us geniuos ozzi's told the gate that Al's girlfriend had our ticket's with her in her backpack and was allready up there waiting for us.Of course they did¿nt beleive us.looked at our dirty shoes and cloths and shook their heads and laughed."You need that ticket now guy's or you can't go in".
Well with a little charm,persuasion and al getting a little fired up they let us sign in (fake name's of course,im Joel Parkes today),on the deal we show our tickets on the way out.They put a big red cross next to our name's and also Bronnies name (as she allegidly had our tickets).
As soon as i'd passed i knew it was a silly thing to do as getting out was gonna be real hard.Ah well,another adventure to the day was needed.After doing the breathtaking climb,my lungs nearly popped.Some parts of the track you needed to use a guide wire on near vert rock,i have no idea how they carted boulders up here by hand to build it,or i can't imagine how many people died doing it.
But once at the top and in the ruins it was far more impressive than the main Machu Picchu for me.It was higher,quiter,crazier positioning,tunnel's,gaps to jump,more intricately built and just on another level i thought.This day was worth all the effort and more.
We had lunch up there with two other aussie freinds that we'd both been running into on the tourist trail for the past few weeks,good dood's,good lunch,great to drink water and even better to relax and get our breath back.All at a place that resembled storie's of heaven itselsf.
But the relaxing and the added brains of the others also brought about the realization that we had to get out of the gate without been busted,certainly a hard feat.But then i said "If these bloody inca's can build an empire like this by hand at such a crazy locatin, then getting out should be so easy,if not we are just a bunc of useless new-age suckers".With that came idea's and chat,(Not much from Bronnie tho as she was pissed about us getting a red cross next to her name,and fair enough too).
So she went out first,and the other boy's pissed off too.Bron was to tell them at the gate she had seen us and given us the two tickets and then we were on our own again,set for another mission.
Al and i half an hour later neared the gate,sussed out the landscape,secuirity and made our decision.He was going bush again,straight over the top of a knobby hill,probably in full veiw of all tourists and not knowing where he was gonna come out.I was'nt convinced and was not going to follow,also thought we would have a better chance alone(less attention),therefore i was on my own.After 10 minute's of scratching my head i thought i would try to charge the gate without been recognised.
No such luck,the gate was blocked and the secuirity picked me from 10 metre's away."Got your ticket now", "naaaaaa" i said,
"my mate has them both and just took a sidetrack walk to the cave,i'll wait here for him,how long does it take?"
They shook their heads and replied with"Three hours",
"Faaaark,im not sitting here for three hours,he has my ticket,cant he just show you when he come's through".
"Nup,You move to the side plaese sir your going nowhere".
They were soooo on to me and new we were illegal entrants.I sat next to the office,while tourist after tourist walked past and looked at me with the,"what the hell are you doing sitting there look".I gave them back the ozzi "what the bloody hell you looking at mate" look.
I sat and thought,then started the acting roll,and it was an act cos im not really a angry person in public that get's agitated with proprioter's.
Anyway,i walked circles,cursing and muffling buuuuullshit under my breath.While doing this i was making sure the gaurd was noticing me,and also the other tourist's.Sure felt silly and like i was on stage but something had to be done.
Then it happened,i walked up to the desk,busted through the tourist's and said quite loudly "Listen here mate,this is F/ing B/shit,im not gonna sit here for three F/ing and wait for my mate just cos he has my F/ing ticket,aarrgggghhh".
This caused quite a scene (im a good actor when i wanna be) and all tourists listened with a few agreements and a few "whoooaaa's", therefore resulting in the guards getting me out of there as soon as they could."ok,sign your name,But I WANT THAT TICKET BY THE END OF THE DAY". "Sure" i said as i walked off,laughing on the inside,suckers.
Another mission complete.On my exit of the ruins like it was meant to be i heard,"joel" and it was the whole crew leaving at the same time,back topgether again,Me and al swapped storie¿s and he's was crazy too.Funny.
On the walk down the hill we counted the steaps,1705 give or take 10.So we walked about 3400 steps for the day,not counting those inside the ruins.It was such a fun day with many elements of excitement.
And they are probably still searching for the body of AL CRABBY from Australia today.
wink wink
