Macchu Picchu

Trip Start Oct 20, 2008

Trip End Jun 11, 2009

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Tents on the Inca Trail!

Flag of Peru Cusco, Peru
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Just back (and it feels like a lifetime ago already) from the Inca trail. Much tougher than we ever expected! Tired and sore today. Four long days of walking and roughing it in tents and using rotten holes in the ground as toilets! so glad to see a bed, hot shower and proper toilet last night!

Despite it being difficult, it was an amazing experience and a great achievement to finish. The Inca sites were like something out of a movie, emerging from the mist. Despite being wrecked yesterday we even climbed Wayna Picchu, the very steep optional mountain at the end! Toughest climb but worth it for the views at the end. It was a good laugh, especially at night in the big dinner tent. The food was great to be so far from civilisation. A group of porters carried everything (from gas cylinders to chairs up the mountain on their backs). They were brilliant! At 4am yesterday morning during breakfast, they presented one of the lads with his very own massive chocolate birthday cake! Unbelievable!

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St Patrick on a typical wet day	The teletubbies day out	Pretty boy (bfore 4 days without a shower!)	Starting the trek
The 1st Inca site	Having a laugh in the dinner tent	The porters, the heroes!	A look down from the top
Looking happy to have reached the top	Carrying the chairs	Our campsite in view (Thank God!)	The view from the tent
A moment to contemplate the trek	Anne on some (more) stairs Comments!	What Anne really thinks of Macchu Picchu! Comments!	The discoverer of the Incas on a day out
Waynu Pichu, the final (optional!) hurdle	The view from the top onto Macchu Picchu	Can't handle the pace?