We had our fair share of rain in Cuzco and Machu Picchu. We sat this downpour out in the square, but after 4/5 hours we made a dash back to our hotel. Taxi, like buses are never there when you need one. Luckily we managed to leave Cuzco before a series of landslides covered the train tracks to/from Machu Picchu. This imprisoned about 3,000 tourists there and required the Peruvian air force to airlift food and supplies into the town, and start evacuating the tourists at 500 per day. As I write this the town has been cut-off for a week now, and people are still being airlifted out. Sadly quite a few locals have also died as mudslides have buried several houses.
A typical road in Cuzco heavy with Spanish colonial influences.
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