We're over the very worst part of Montezuma's revenge and meet in Ollantaytambo and take the train to Machupicchu. The train is really a 100% tourist thing and they make a big fuzz about it, with check-in, passport control, announcements like in a plane, and onboard food service. Guys, it's just a train, keep it low! We stay overnight in Machupicchu town and take the Bus up to the Inca site in the morning. Supposedly it's great to see the sunrise here, but it's ...

The Lares Trek starts at around 3300 m and goes all the way up to the Andes water-shed at 4600 m. Even when you've overcome altitute sickness (it affected us on the first 1-2 days staying in La Paz), oxygen is low at this altitude, so it's very tiring. Petra made it all the way up with food poisoning. Respeto!! Very heroic. One thing that is particular about the trek is that you often meet children that beg for food (bread) or toys. That's they don't actually be...

Aargh, no... We were so careful before we started the trek, because we know that Boliva and Peru are dirty countries, but we finally got food poisoning on the trail (we believe it was from water that wasn't properly boiled). Both of us more or less at the same time. It was quite bad, so for me it did not make sense to keep walking further, so I had to stop the trek and return to Lares. Petra noticed it a little bit later, so she had already started the day tour a...

We met our tour guide Marco, who is a really nice and well-educated person. He talks in a very clean spanish, which is great because we can practice the language with him. The party is completed by one driver, one cook and two horsemen - while the two of us are actually the only guests on this trek. So they outnumber us 5:2. Feels strange, but in a very exclusive way. Before we start hiking we visit a Condor project. I didn't quite understand the point here, bec...

From Cusco we make a day tour to the sacred valley, which includes three places with Inca history. I recommend to do the tour, especially because the inca site in Ollantaytambo is really impressive. Ollantaytambo is also part of the Lares and the Inca trails, but on the Lares trail you won't have much time there, so it's worth going extra. After Ollantaytambo we went to a tiny place in the mountains where we met women weaving Alapaca wool and producing clothes. ...