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You will be pleased to hear that we survived te Inca Trail! Hurrah! Had a great 4 days with the most amazing views of the Andes, and also the biggest blisters you have ever seen! The first day was flat and quite nice... the second day was evil with a killer 4 hours solid uphill-mountain- climb followed by a 3 hour desent! harsh! We were stuffing our faces with Coco leaves, apparently to prevent altitude sickness and to give you energy, at 4200 metres! The porters were amazing, they basically ran the inca trail with 30k of stuff on their backs, they then set up camp with food, tents and everything! Although they stank! The third day had amazing view of the rainforest and moutains, followed by more Inca ruins and the mountain of machu picchu...at this camp we managed to get our first shower for days...it was lovely! they also had a bar which came in handy!
The forth day started with a 3.30am wake up call, then the trek to machu picchu, which was amazing, very mystical and kinda cloudy too! then we headed to the thermal spa to relax and chill out! We then completed the Cuzco 24 hour challenge, where you go out drinking til 4am! had a fantastic night, and a well deserved few drinks.
From Cuzco we headed to the Amazon Jungle... took a three hour boat to the jungle lodge,with no electrcity or phone signal again. But at least the toilets were 100 times better than the Inca Trail with holes in the ground! Had a really nice few days trekking and searching for wildlife, saw monkeys, an ant eater, Caymen (like crocs), a real life terachella in the wild (very scary! and about 2 feet from my feet!) some macaws (big parot like birds) peranas and a porcupine, really exciting! Had a great time...
Yesterday we travelled back to Lima and had my final night out, went for a nice meal...so now just checking my flights and getting ready for the journey home...helen, the lucky thing is off to Fiji!
I will be back on Sunday morning, thats if they let me through customs with all the crap i have purchased...
so see u soon,
muchos love from south america,
Ali xxx
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