3rd and 4th February Machu Picchu

Up at crack of dawn and we go off on a coach for about 75-80k to the train station where we are to catch the train to Agua Caliante, also known to some as Machu Picchu,.
The train is incredible and it was a bit like boarding the Orient Express, show your ticket and then co-relate that to your passport and we are allowed on to allocated seats. The carriage has windows in the roof as well as the sides to enhance the view as we travel along the valley.
The trip should take 1 1/2 hours and is about 30k long, so we were not travelling fast, and it actually took over 2 hours.
We are met and taken to our hotel which is very new, apparently it opened a month ago. So today we will explore the town and visit the museum which has some artifacts from Machu Picchu and gives a detailed description of its known history since 1911 when Hiram Bingham discovered the city.
We then went to the top of the town to the hot springs, which is where the town gets its name, agua caliante, hot water. There are several pools of varying temperatures and it is very relaxing.
Having met our guide at the hotel it would seem we are to have another early morning, but a very pleasant surprise came with this news. I have been trying to get my leg better so that I could accomplish Machu Picchu, a 1 hour plus hike to the top and then a guided tour, but no we are to get a bus which will take us to the top, fantastic.
Having reached the top we seem to go through guides very quickly and having climbed to the highest point in the city we get our 5th guide of the morning, he is very good and we are pleased to have ended up with him. He takes us around the City, it is fantastic what the Incas did here in creating and building it and also in defeat how they led the Spanish away so that they were unable to discover it.
When we first arrived the whole City was covered in cloud which was disappointing but that eventually lifted and we had a great tour, some 10 minutes after our tour finished the rain came and we escaped to the café to have a coffee, so a very successful visit all round.
We then took the bus down to the village and went back to the hot springs for a couple of hours, had dinner and then worked our way back to Cusco on the train and then coach.
A fabulous 2 days.