Today we said goodbye to Ollantaytambo and headed back to Cusco. I really wish we could have stayed because that was probably my favorite town so far. We took the train from there to Aguas Calientes and went to Machu Picchu. The name of the Inca town was acctually not Machu Picchu. Noone knows what the town was called but Machu Picchu is the name of an old mountain because Machu Picchu literaly means Old Mountain in Quechwa. Then we went back to Ollantaytambo on another train and stayed there one last night. This morning we got in a cab and had our driver drive us all the way back to Cusco. We stopped at the Salt Flats (Salinas) and walked around. We all felt the water, IT WAS WARM!!! It felt like perfect water to take a bath in but unfortunatly the place had lots of tourists. The "flats" were squares of salt that hardened when the workers blocked off the water. The workers took shovels to the dry flats and got the salt and carried it back. After "Salinas" we went to Moray. Moray is where the Incas built terraces into the ground for hotter climates to grow different plants. Mom, Dad, Helen and I went down all the way to the bottom of one circle and climbed all the way back up. Going down was definatly much easier than going up because the Incans built bigger stones out of the walls that formed stairs all the way up. The up climb was also really hard because our legs were also really sore from horseback-riding but thats another story... Left is a picture of the salt flats and the right is a picture of Moray. This trip has really been amazing, each day is crazy and not how we expect it to be but we are always ready for the next!!!
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