Cheap Transportation Alternative from Cuzco to Machu Picchu!!!

This is for the backpackers that are desperately searching for some way to get there without paying the outrageous PeruRail prices. Doesn´t help with the admission fees to the site itself, but hopefully someone will find this while they´re freaking out like I was.

You can get transportation from near Avenida de Sol in Cuzco. Start walking down, away from Plaza de Armas, and ask people because they know where these buses stop. It should cost 5 Soles but the drivers sometimes try to charge you up to 70. Don´t let them screw you! That takes you to Ollantaytambo. That´s where the train to MP stopped before the mudslides, but take another bus from the terminal there to KM82 which is another couple soles. Make sure you get there, it´s important. Then walk along the tracks to Aguas Calientes, which falls at around km 112. It´s quite a hike, and always along train tracks which get uncomfortable, but you can save about U$ 75! If you get nervous, just ask the guard at the station if you can walk along the tracks a little, he told me, ´of course!´ really nicely.