You can get to Machu Picchu either by the Inca trail, or instead by train (which we did) via Agua Calientes. From there it's a bus shuttle up to Machu Picchu.
Last year the rainy season started in January with torrential rains which flooded out Agua Calientes and destroyed a lot of the town and rail, cutting the area off for 3 months. It was something of a local disaster with a lot of stranded locals and tourists resulting in much hardship, especially for those who had little money to get help. The government did'nt offer as much assistance as they could have done, partly because they'd just given something like $10M to the Haiti disaster. This caused a lot of bitterness.
View up the river, anticipating a vast tsunami....
Most of the above was devastated last year
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