After a heaving going day yesterday it was nice to discover that today would be pretty relaxed and very easy in comparison to our last 48 hours. The location we had spent the night in was just was unbelievable! Surrounded by rolling mountains up in the clouds with waterfalls on every turn and pools of hot springs it was a little taste of heaven. The natural hot springs had been channeled into five pools that you could swim in, ranging in temperatures with the hot...

Waking up in the dark on top of a mountain in a tent was a bizarre experience. We had a feast of a breakfast consisting of porridge, pancakes, bread and warm drinks and set off around 7am to reach the peak of the mountain. The morning hiking was extremely steep uphill, climbing over rocks and trekking through forests up in the clouds. Unfortunately the weather was not on our side and it started to snow making for a cold, wet start to a very long day that unknown ...

We set off really early on a bus from Cusco to Urubamba, a small local village striving off its farming industry in corn and quinoa, where we stopped to have breakfast. We continued on up into the mountains to the start of our trek through the Andes. Our guide was a lovely Andean guy named Henry and our team consisted of three more local Andean men from the Lares Valley who were to be our chef, assistant and horse man for the next few days. Lares is a region in t...