Last night I only woke up once for about an hour. I took a few pain killers and put some numbing cream on my tooth, within about an hour I was back asleep thank god!

Such a good night sleep apart from that one hour of pain and super dry mouth.

6.30am wake up call and I wasn't very tired at all thank god. I had a much needed log hot shower, the last for about four days! Aussie Lauren lent me her hair dryer which was a god send!

We packed up our things and weighed for another time, 2.8kg really is not a lot! I don't want to take anything out because I fear I will freeze to death, it's hard to judge because today the sun is beaming and it's bloody boiling!!


I managed not to take anything out, we walked to the bus and went on a 45 minute journey to the 'KM82' base of where we begin the trek. For almost 30 minutes of the ride we were on a very bumpy dirty road which only allowed one lorry or bus to pass, this proved to be tricky for some drivers having to reverse now and then.

Again, the scenery was incredible! The mountains are enormous and just so different to the ones at home. They have more edgy parts and sharp rocks that make them look angry, we spotted a few in the background with clouds around them and snow capped peaks - they were pretty awesome! We couldn't manage to get a really good photo though because of the damn clouds.

We reached base camp, all had a pee and slapped a tonne of sun cream on. The porters had all their massive bags, bigger than them! (Which isn't that difficult)
We were designated our sleeping bags, mattresses and poles. Once the porters had packed everything and Jonathon the inca warrior had said his briefing they gave us all a g adventures goody bag with snacks in... how many snacks do they think we need!? They told us to supply our own and then they give us more! I don't get hungry when I walk I just want to keep going!


We got to the famous sign at the bottom of the valley, the KM82 sign stating the inca trail beginning. It's also the train station, but that's for pussys because it only takes 1hr 40 minutes to reach Manchu Pichu in it, unlike us of 3/4 days.

We had to hand over our passports to check our permits at the check point and away we were, it was beautiful, very green with a huge river by the side of us down in the valley with cactus all around us and it was a scorcher!

We had to shout 'porter' when one would run passed or 'donkey' or 'motorbike' if the locals were coming passed, its was quite funny really! I feel awful for just carrying a little bag and the g adventures guys have 22kg on their backs! Every now and then they run aswell!

We walked for around 3 hours, there were parts of terrain but nothing massive. The views were incredible and we stopped at one of the famous inca ruins, they shaped their terraces in the shape of the three sacred gods they worshiped. The first was the sun, which they used the symbol of the condor for. The second was the ground which they used the symbol of the wild cat for and the third one was the underground which they used the symbol of a snake for. You will always see their ruins with a shape of one of these animals in, always at the end of the terraces or ruins there is a sun gate with one window in facing where the sun rises in the east.

It is all so clever! They weren't called the incas, they were called ketchuar after their spoken language.

We stopped for lunch and my god was it a lunch it was a beautiful little spot down in a valley. We are working our way into the cloud forest/valley now because the mountains are so high that's why they call it this.

The porters all clapped us going into camp but I feel as though we should be clapping them! They're the hard core lads, I feel like a fake walking in here with my little rucksack. Plus they have all set up a community tent for us to eat out lunch off, we had stools each which I was surprised at! I thought we would be sitting on the floor. They had boiled water and put it in 15 bowls so we could all wash our hands too!

The lunch was awesome, we had an avocado and cheese salsa with a cracker. Next we had noodle soup and a desert was chiycha jelly which was delicious too! How on earth have they made all this stuff!! It's incredible.

We carried on walking again, there are too many pit stops for me! I need to just keep going at times. I feel like I'm cooling down and plus I don't want to keep eating snacks.

I feel like I'm in giant land, like the BFG should be living here and we are the little dwarf people walking around their place.

We stopped for dinner and at or last camp for the evening at 4pm. We have only be walking about 5 hours in total today so not too bad at all really.

All of our tents were set up and all we had to do was collect our rucksacks and find a tent to sleep in. The community tent where we would have our food was all set up too.

By the time we had gotten there most of the porters were playing football, are they crazy! After such a tough day!

We watched them play football after a hot chocolate and a jam cracker. (Another snack)
Jonathon the lead inca warrior guide said that their are only 200 tourists allowed on the trail per day with an extra 300 being porters and guides. However because it's coming into low season, today instead of the usual 30 groups of travellers there are only 11. With ours being the biggest one of 15 people! Meaning we need two guides and 21 porters! I worked it out that they get $30 each in tip when we all tip them $50 each. Which is nothing! But they do get a wage, the average wage is around 600 soles per month in Peru, plus these guys have farming at home so probably sell their crops to Cusco companies or something aswell.

We had dinner by candle light, it was a quinoa soup with chilli and onions that we could put in it if we liked, main we had some sort of garlic sauce with chicken and rice, it tasted a little like green Thai curry. No desert this evening, just tea!

We had our briefing or should I say 'scare' for tomorrow. Day 2 is known as the worst day apparently due to the altitude. At the moment we are at 3000 metres above sea level, tomorrow we will reach 4200 metres and camp at 3700 metres approx.

I couldn't wait to get to bed as I was nackered, after the briefing he Jonathon let us be and we all brushed teeth and peed. Off to bed we went!

8pm is our earliest bed time yet I think! I have my ear plugs at the ready, I mainly can't wait for everyone to hear Scott's horrendous snoring and finally I will have people to back me up on how loud he actually is!

Toothache came back a little tonight so I made sure that I took pain killers and stuck the numbing cream over it. Fingers crossed it's almost gone completely and no self amputation of teeth will happen!

Campsite - wayllabamba