{"id":3902,"date":"2026-05-11T23:25:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:25:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:25:37","slug":"along-the-rail-track-to-aguas-calientes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/video-journeys\/along-the-rail-track-to-aguas-calientes\/","title":{"rendered":"Along the Rail Track to Machu Picchu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>Hidden tracks, gardens and waterfalls, butterflies drifting  <\/em><\/h4>\n<p><iframe  id=\"_ytid_66206\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k6uE9JsVuRg?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&controls=1&disablekb=0&color=red&cc_lang_pref=&rel=1&autohide=2&theme=dark&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nWe follow the rail from the hydroelectric station, walking the line toward Aguas Calientes \u2014 an alternative path, slower, quieter, away from the crowds. At Cataratas de Mandor, a botanical garden opens into a waterfall tumbling through the jungle. Butterflies flicker in the air, bright wings wandering among the trees. The rails guide us onward, the river running beside, until the town appears \u2014 gateway to the citadel beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hidden tracks, gardens and waterfalls, butterflies drifting We follow the rail from the hydroelectric station, walking the line toward Aguas Calientes \u2014 an alternative path, slower, quieter, away from the crowds. At Cataratas de Mandor, a botanical garden opens into a waterfall tumbling through the jungle. Butterflies flicker in the air, bright wings wandering among&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[99,117],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-journeys","tag-atlantic-to-pacific","tag-video-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonabonita.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}