I rekon the Incas are crazy, as to why they wanted to build cities and towns high in the mountains is beyond me. 4 days of hard slog but was it beautiful and amazing? yes it sure was. From Mountains, to dry lands to maountains again, right into the jungle. Myself and John were the only peeps in our group, so myself, John our guide and 6 other Peruvian porters carrying everything, tents, sleeping bags, stools, tables, buckets, food, water, a giant gas canister to cook with, heavy, cooker all that was missing was the kitchen sink!
So as we would walk the porters would shoot ahead loaded with all the goods, get to camp or lunch and set up everything, little bowls of water to wash our hands in, hot water too. And our meals would be prepared, tents set up and our dinner tent ready and waiting. This was not camping as i know it, this was the hight of luxury camping. Awoken in the morning with a bowl of hot water to wash in and a hot cup of coca tea waiting outside your tent. Sweet! Breakfast was porridge, pancakes, bread, fruit, hot chocolate, tea. Lunch was stuffed avocado with chicken. Then there was afternoon tea, crackers jam, hot chocolate and popcorn. Dinner was always started with soup then cordon blue or steak, follwed by pudding. Awesome, we hadn´t ate so well the whole time we had been in Peru.
The second day was a hike and a half as we had to ascend up to 4200m, up very steep steps might i add, crazy incas. Very tough at altitude. The final day was the ascent up to the sun gate starting at 4am to arrive over Macchu Picchu, a bit of a let down for me personally as we got stuck onthe trail behind loads of slow boddys. We arrived in Macchu Picchu city, smelly and dirty from 3 days hard treking but fine eating. We arrived at that picture postcard moment and it was awesome. Then the American tourists started piling in by the hourdes, cheese city, we escaped to remember it in the quiet morning as we arrived decended down to Aguas Calientes to the hot springs to wash and recover.
