Inca Trail: Day 4 So today was the big day!! We were woken at 3am!!! The reason for this is because the porters have to get the 6am train back to Cuzco or they have to wait 12 hrs for the next one! We had pancakes for breakfast and started off in the dark with our torches! We only walked about 5 mins when we reached passport control...which didn't open until 5.30am! So we had a 1 hr wait but we did get there just I'm the nix of time to be the last group to get...

The Inca Trail - Day 3 Another Coca tea at 5am and three course breakfast started the 'unforgettable' day. We were to walk 16 km with lots of ups and downs through the 2nd pass at 3,900 meters and the 3rd pass at 3,500 meters. The weather was cold when we started and I was feeling extremely exhausted from the previous day. The first section was 400 meter climb. I was not enjoying it as my legs were really aching. As we started up the mountain we looked back to...

Inca Trail - Day 2 In the might we were really hot - so New Zealand better be cold or I'm going to demand my money back on my thermals! We were woken at 5am by the porters with a hot cup of Coca tea! After our 3 course breakfast we were introduced to our porters. We went round saying our names, where were from, and what we did as an occupation or how long they'd been working on the trail. It was creat to meet them! The youngest porter was 20 (our waiter) and th...

Day 1 So I'm 4 days behind on my blog due to the Inca Trail! After an early start we got a ram packed mini bus for 2 hours up to Ollantaytambo. It had our guide, 7 porters, a chef and 7 of us with all our bags and kit!! There was a dodgy smell in the bus but then I thought I'll smell worse than this by the end!! We stopped in Ollantaytambo to buy water, ponchos and have a coffee! We then had another 45 min journey to our start point. We had a little misunde...

An early morning flight from Arequipa via Puno brought us to Cuzco! We flew over a volcano but we were on the wrong side of the plane. We did a walking tour of Cuzco and I ordered a fruit salad smoothie but got a bowl of fruit at the market! We went to a 'coffee with legs' with the boys where the waitress wore short shorts and I had a hot chocolate with Baileys! We then went for a walk with Grant up the hill. I went half way but let the boys walk all the way ...