We woke early, opened the front window of the tent and watched the stars and moon as they waned over the mountains; the first light caught Mt Veronica and just after 6am it burst over the mountains infront of us. Lucky we were awake as Dan, enroute to the loo tripped over our guy ropes - all we could see was the light of his torch heading towards us! All packed up we headed to the tent for breakfast but as it was so warm we sat there while they lifted it off for ...

After an on off nights sleep - luckily more on than off - we woke at 5.45 and with the wind still whistling around the tent I was reluctant to get up, but needs must, so I quickly ran to the loo tent - it wasn't as cold as I expected - not long after getting back the guys arrived with the hot drinks closely followed by the water for washing. As it was very nippy outside we left our thermals on and ate breakfast with hats and gloves on - the water that they had l...

Today we were up at 5.35am sorting our tent out; the guys arrived at 6am with some warm drinks we both had hot chocolate as it was very cold ( in the shade it was below freezing as water that was thrown down quickly turned to ice until the sun got to it). A little while later water arrived for a quick wash. At 0630 Bobby shouted breakfast so we took our packed bags and day bags with us so the guys could start to break camp. Corn porridge, French toast and pancake...

We started the day with our last shower for 4 days and headed to breakfast. At. 7.30 we said good bye to Inca trail folks and waited for our team who arrived at about 8am and we headed off for a long drive as we end up back here in Ollantaytambo - so we need to be at least 40km away. First stop after a couple of hours was at the Inca site with the moonstone carving that gave our trek it's name - then off to the start , which was not without it's issues - a road...