Aguas Calientes

So anyways, very close to my heart.

Also, what's that? What's the, Gatlinburg is also so bizarre because I think it's so similar to Peru in that at the base of the, of Machu Picchu, there is this little town, like it's called Aguas Calientes that you stay in before you like go up or whatever.

If you take the train and that's like a whole separate story.

But Aguas Calientes is like Disneyland at the bottom of like the most precious, like yeah america not american uh like united oh my god why can't i think

worldly whatever like a national or a

yeah exactly

And I've been really careful to, like a lot of the ones from Tula, you, you find them in Tula.

I get in a plane, fly two hours north, and I get to, uh, Agua Calientes, and you get out to, uh, Olleros, Olleros, I c- never can say it, you know, white gringo here.

Um, and go out with my dowsing rods in the middle of the hot sun, you know, and go, "Yeah, this really picky bush [laughs] with the big thorns on it says it's underneath here." And so we, we dig it, and sure enough, right? I think there are millions of these out there.

And, um, and I always say, like, you know, Aaron, we had, like...

Like a lot of the ones from Tula, y- you find them in Tula.

I get in a plane, fly two hours north, and I get to, uh, Agua Calientes, and you get out to, uh, Olleros, Olleros, I c- never- can't say it, you know, white gringo here.

Um, and go out with my dowsing rods in the middle of the hot sun, you know, and go, "Yeah, this really picky bush [laughs] with the big thorns on it says it's underneath here." And so w- we dig it, and sure enough, right? I think there are millions of these out there.

And, um, and I always say, like, you know, Aaron, we had, like, we had people with us, and we had people taking care of us, but I would not just go there.

Let's talk for a minute about the logistics of going to Machu Picchu.

So you're in the Sacred Valley unless you go spend the night in Aguas Calientes.

And Aguas Calientes is at the foot, the base of Machu Picchu.

So some people want to go the night before, spend the night in Aguas Calientes, or maybe the night after.

If people are hiking in, you'll usually hike into what they call the Sun Gate, and then you'll go back down, spend the night in Aguas Calientes, and then go back up for the next day to actually go into Machu Picchu.

When you go from the Sacred Valley, you drive to the train station in like one of the cities there in Sacred Valley.

And then you take the train up to Machu Picchu.

Where are you exactly located in that region?

We are located in the city of Aguas Calientes.

We are five minutes walking from the train station and 20 minutes from the citadel of Machu Picchu.

We are a wonderful 62 rooms property.

We are 20 minutes by bus from the ruins.

It's very close.

We are the last hotel in the city of Aguascalientes.

But what we think that is important is to people see that we are not just a hotel to sleep.

And you see that especially in Peru, when you go from, say, Cusco on the Dome train down to Ciudad de Machu Picchu.

Mm, well, Aguas Calientes.

Aguas Calientes.

We call, always call Aguas Calientes.

Okay, how about, um, oh, the Church of Gold in Quito.

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