Just had to keep saying to myself in 2 hours we will have made it. I hadn't eaten anything in 36 hours so I woke up with no energy, we had to be walking by 04.15am to reach the Machu Picchu gate first which opened at 5am. It was no surprise that the Peruvians in our group were still showering at 4.15 so we decided to set off without them. Through the gate I let Liz and Susanne go on ahead so I could take the steps at my own pace. It took an hour of climbing ...

Just had to keep saying to myself in 2 hours we will have made it. I hadn't eaten anything in 36 hours so I woke up with no energy, we had to be walking by 04.15am to reach the Machu Picchu gate first which opened at 5am. It was no surprise that the Peruvians in our group were still showering at 4.15 so we decided to set off without them. Through the gate I let Liz and Susanne go on ahead so I could take the steps at my own pace. It took an hour of climbing ...

Waking up at 3am feeling ill wasn't the best preparation for the days events. After passing on what would have been the best breakfast so far on the trip - pancakes, we walked to the zip line office where they couldn't get the equipment on us quick enough and we rushed to the first zip line point. There were 5 zip lines in total ranging from 300-500m in length crossing the Urubamba river. I felt even worse at this point after seeing the height! But when I was a...

We are gradually learning that in Peru everything / everyone is late, in future we will remember to set our alarms at least 30mins later. This continued as we got off to a speedy start when the guide had to stop after 2mins to grab water. Once we were on track we past Santa Maria old town which is now a ghost town because it was flooded by the Urubumba river 14 years ago and now only 3 families remain living in the town. Our first major stop was at monkey ho...

Meeting at Reserv. Tour agency at 7am ready to embark on our first real peruvian adventure! We met the rest of our group which was made up of a Swiss girl Susanne, and 4 peruvians who spoke litttle english so we were a little worried about what to expect. We wanted to do the jungle trek because it included cycling, rafting and zip lining along the way. After the safety briefing we were all kitted up with helmets, knee and elbow pads ready to start cycling for 3...