Up at 3:45am as met in plaza at 4:30am to start our journey to Macchu Picchu.

Doing the trek with Llama Path, which is a local company, will take 4 days / 3 nights. There is 8 of us in total doing the trek - Devin & Anastacia (New York), Laura (Boston), Ryan (South Carolina), Craig (England) & Sarah (Switzerland), Nat and I. We have 1 tour leader, Willian and 14 porters. Now the porters are the guys who will carry everything for our campsites and food etc, they carry 25kg each.

First was a bus for 2 hours to our starting point, Kilometre 82, and we stopped for breakfast on the way through. So tired and so cold.

By 7:30am we start walking, the first section is what is referred to as Inka flats and we starting at an elevation of 2720m/8923ft. Air is so clean and fresh, looking towards the mountains was absolutely breathtaking and maybe a bit daunting. Moved at a nice pace, come across locals with loaded up donkeys.

There are a lot of orchids, very beautiful. We made a couple of stops to munch on snacks and to check out inca sites.

Lunch was about 1:30pm, our porters have set up a lunch tent and proceed to serve ceviche as a starter, then soup and then 5 large platters of meats, rice and vegetables are brought in - the food was ridiculously good, I cannot describe how amazing, and remember we are in the middle of the Andes and they were serving restaurant quality.

During our lunch a man from another group was struggling to breathe and had be taken back, so the emergency donkey was brought in, yes that is right "the emergency donkey".

3pm we finalise our16km trek for the day to our campsite - now I said this first day was on inca flats, they do not know what flat land is as this like Hamilton Island on steroids. Is also very humid here in the Andes. Cruising along and next thing 2 llamas come racing past down the hill - loving this trek.

Dinner was also a massive feast and for dessert we had flambeed bananas - seriously people what is happening here? Again we are in the middle of the Andes on a camping trek.

Campsites have toilet facilities - hole in the ground, time to engage "legs of steel". 9pm into tent and sleep as up at 5am next day.