Inca Trail # 5

And here we are at Machu Picchu with the Incan city behind us. We wandered around the ruins for a few hours before getting the train back to Cusco for a well needed shower and sleep. 4 days of getting up at 4-5 am, walking all day and not showering takes it´s toll.

Many more details have been excluded but we shall fill you all in when we get home.

A fantastic few days :)

Inca Trail # 4

Here´s a great view of the mountains...and our feet!

Inca Trail # 3

Here´s Matt with our guide for the trail, Jose. The weather looks good here but we did have a few heavy showers of rain over the 4 days. Sadly it was too wet to get any photos of us in our fetching ponchos. The rain did give the mountains a different atmosphere though especially when we were in the clouds.

Inca Trail # 2

Here´s Sueann climbing up to Dead Woman´s pass on the second day. This is near the start of a 6 hour climb taking us from 3000m to 4200m.
Pretty tough going but the scenery was enough to take our minds off it.

Inca Trail # 1

Wow! The Inca trail was one of the best things we´ve ever done. Here´s it is in a few pictures...


This is our group of five at the start of the trail on Monday morning.

Fanny Tuna!

Yep, this is Fanny Tuna. Also available ... Fanny jam!

I´m all acclimatised to the altitude and food now so I´m looking forward to the Inca trail tomorrow. Wahoo!

Oh my god it´s the Inca Trail tomorrow!!!

Hola again,

After Jase and Selina putting pressure on Matt I have finally been able to write first. Well done guys!

We´ve done masses in the last few days so it´s difficult to know what to write about. We went out to some islands on Lake Titicaca and stayed over night with a family on Amantile Island. It was really amazing. They barely had electricty and everything was really basic, but they were really beautiful people. The whole island was a hill and it was at over 4000m.....jeez that was hard work.

I´m uploading a photo of Matt with our Mama and her daughter. His head is higher than the roof!!! I´m also uploading one of the mum with her little baby....how cute is she??

We´re now in Cusco (the original Inca City). It´s got loads of cobbled streets and is really lovely. We have been buying scarves and gloves to keep us warm on the trail. Our 4 day hike begins tomorrow. I´m a little nervous as it´s so high and so long, but i´m also really excited. Here´s hoping I make it to the end!!

Anyhoo, thanks so much for all of your comments. It´s really great to hear from everyone.

We´ll do another update as soon as we're back (Friday) and let you know how it went.

Sx