Butterfly happiness

Old Mayan legend about butterfly:

When you want happiness and to make your desires reality. Whisper it to a butterfly, give her their freedom: grateful she will fly. The happiness and the love will arrive and your desires will be granted.

So I did released an orange butterfly today and that was my highlight for today, June 5th 2019! I feel so peaceful and happy!

Since I couldn‘t get any tickets to climb either Huayna or Machu Picchu mountain, so I had an easy morning, which I thought I need it. Just to slow down a bit and do something by myself.

First I checked out, left my bags in the hotel and walked/ hiked to Mandor waterfall. I walked along the river, it is a magnificent river with big stones on it and clear water, I used my imagination while looking at those stones, I saw Mufasa, from Lion king, a face of a man and a shoe. I saw also many birds, one of them the red crown bird along the way and of course many flowers too that I couldn’t stop taking pictures of them. Then I turned to the right from the main road and walked literally along the river and train track. I met and talked with a dog in the middle of the way till the entrance of the botanical garden before the waterfall. There are two waterfalls, Mesada and Mandor. The water is quite cold, I touched it but no bathing. From there I have a good view on Huayna Picchu. On the way back I stopped at the butterfly sanctuary, learnt about what butterflies poet and life. There I had my highlight of today!