Aguas Calientes: Your Chaotic Basecamp Before Machu Picchu
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Treat this town as a glorified waiting room. It stays loud, touristy, and overpriced, but you need it for the bus queues to the ruins. Skip the expensive thermal baths—they’re basically overcrowded, lukewarm concrete tubs. Grab a beer at a balcony bar along the Urubamba River instead. Spend 24 hours tops, catch your early morning shuttle, and get up to the citadel before the day-trippers arrive. Don't plan your whole vacation here; just survive it.
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