I’ve seen so many Machu Picchu pictures before the trip, and was still completely in awe seeing it with my own eyes yesterday.

It was probably my least photo productive day - we spent most of our three hours walking in the rain, and Orion was fighting for his nap. I can’t believe I still caught a snapshot of him smiling… well, sort of.

The mountains were hiding behind the veil of clouds most of time, but the view was still jaw dropping.

Even we entered at 2pm, the last time slot we could choose to enter the site, there were still crowds (much less than the morning I heard). That was expected - well, it is Machu Picchu!

I did not change any lenses for fear of any possible rain damage to the camera. I couldn’t afford to lose another camera in the rain (see the full story of the ending of my Canon 5D MarkIII), as I only brought one full frame camera on this trip (see my favorite one camera one lens set up).

I left all my landscape photography gear back in Cusco due to the weather. In addition, people are only allowed to bring limited luggage onto the Perurail to Machu Picchu. To our kids, the train was the highlight and the purpose to go to Machu Picchu.

This is one of the very few family photos during our travel. Machu Picchu requires all tourists to enter the site with a tour guide. Our guide offered to take pictures for us - what a bonus! I finally got a special moment!

See more posts about our family trip in Peru.

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