{"id":9496,"date":"2022-04-26T02:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T02:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/journey-machu-picchu-peru\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:09:09","slug":"journey-machu-picchu-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/journey-machu-picchu-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Journey To Machu Picchu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 in Peru. We realise (thankfully, before we left the UK) that due&nbsp;to the fact that our Machu Picchu tickets were for&nbsp;7am, there was no way we would make the 4 hour train journey on the same day and so we had to arrive a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>You can also do a 4 day hike on the Inca Trail to get there&nbsp;but we had just under 2 weeks in Peru and our itinerary was jam packed. We already had to skip places like the Amazon and Sacred Valley off our plans so spending 4 days hiking would have eaten a huge chunk of our time in Peru. Also, I just didn&#8217;t want to do a 4 day hike. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This of course meant free time to explore Machupicchu village and properly enjoy our journey up to Machu Picchu on the Vistadome (<em>*not sure why but when you&#8217;re referring to the village, it&#8217;s one word not two separate like when you&#8217;re referring to the ancient Inca citadel<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Anyhooo, here&#8217;s our vlog from our second day in Peru! \ud83d\ude42 (<em>*Also look out for the sneak peek at the very end!<\/em>)<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">THE VIDEO<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rVjK3CGPhrU\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/HLOBlog?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/HLOBlog?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32349\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4972.jpg?resize=1000%2C1500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Journey To Machu Picchu, Peru (4)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4972.jpg?w=1365&amp;ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4972.jpg?resize=300%2C450&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4972.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/handluggageonly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_4972.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 in Peru. We realise (thankfully, before we left the UK) that due&nbsp;to the fact that our Machu Picchu tickets were for&nbsp;7am, there was no way we would make the 4 hour train journey on the same day and so we had to arrive a day earlier. You can also do a 4 day &hellip; Continue Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[1016,1019,897,428],"class_list":["post-9496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-machu-picchu","tag-machupicchu","tag-peru","tag-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}