Day twelve - The grande finale

We woke up at 03:30 to head to the checkpoint and joined the lineup to wait for the gate to open. We walked for 2 hours to reach the Sun Gate from which we got our first views of the ruins of Machu Picchu. 

Cue lots of photos! 

We hiked down to Machu Picchu itself and had a guided tour. We were so happy to have made it! 

Smelly, we caught the bus outside the Machu Picchu gate down to Aguas Calientes, a purpose built town below the Incan site. We were so glad to use a proper toilet rather than the squat toilets on the trek! We celebrated our trekking achievements with pizza and Pisco sours. 

We took a very posh train back to Ollyntambo and then took the Gadventures bus back to Cusco. A quick shower and change and we were off out again to the pub. We celebrated hard at a local bar which had live music and then at Mama Africas. Having completed the 24 hour challenge, we went to bed!

Our flowers and wine from Henry for our Honeymoon!