We have spent a total of six days in Cuzco, three prior to the Inca Trail and three after and we have not really done a great deal apart from chilling out in the day and partying at night! Before the Inca Trail we were preparing all our stuff for the trail and generally partying, celebrating my birthday and after the Inca Trail we have been recovering from colds and again partying! It has been a nice change from sight seeing and a good chance to really let our h...

Our final day of the Inca trail, we can not believe how fast it has gone by! We were woken up at 3.50am and with no cup of tea today which was upsetting!We had to be up so early to get in the queue at the control point which opened at 5.30am! When it did it was like a race to be the first to get to Machu Picchu!We took it easy as Sarah was full of cold and there were a few others suffering from some sort of bug, probably from the water! So they were leaving their...

We were awoken at 5.30am again today and neither Sarah nor I were feeling too great, we were rapidly developing colds, with sore throats, coughs and streaming noses, not nice! Caeser who woke us assured us that coca tea would sort us out so we gulped it down gladly!It was Sarah's 24th Birthday today, what a place to spend it! So at breakfast she had a few cards to open from me and Naimh and Craig, the Irish couple who had made her a card too!Today was to be b...

Another early rise of 5.30am this morning for what was arguably to be the hardest day, again only about 7 miles, but with a climb up Abra de Warmi Wa?a which is over 1,250m, made even more difficult by the high altitude. Also, the descent from the "Dead Woman's Pass" is quite steep and difficult on the knees, thankfully we had sticks to help us out!!Our guides woke us up with a cup of coca tea served to us in our tent we were very impressed with thi...

After waking up at 5am, excited about the next four days our bus collected us from our hostel at 5.30am! On the bus already was most of our group which in total it consisted of us, an Irish couple, an Australian couple, seven Americans and a Puerto Rican making a group of 14. In addition to this there were 19 porters, our cook Jesus, the assistant cook, our guide Victor and our assistant guide Ceaser.  We slept for most of the 3 hour bus journey where we arr...