Originally Posted by
Bretteee
The weather looks nice?
Was it cool?
Were you affected by the altitude?
The altitude at Machu Pichu is not that bad, about 8,000 feet, Aqua Calientes is at 6,500. Cuzco is much higher at more than 11,000 feet. When I visited last fall we had no problems breathing at Machu Pichu, it was a bit more difficult to breath in Cuzco and on the way to Machu Pichu via the Salkantay trek, which tops out at about 16,000 feet. We took Diamox for a couple of days, no altitude sickness, just a lot of heavy breathing.