Today was the hardest day of all. We were woken up and given a cup of coca tea to start and a bowl of warm water to freshen up with. Then an amazing breakfast of fresh fruit, porridge, toast, mini pancakes, juice, tea and coffee. By 5:45am we on the trail, started at an elevation of 3300m/10829ft, we walked for a couple of hours and stopped for a snack and to check everyone's oxygen levels and heart rate as no turning back after this point. We climbed up to De...

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 e...

Sleep in yesterday morning until 630am, breakfast and to boat to head back to Puerto Maldonado. Spent the day hanging out in Puerto Maldonado and catch overnight bus back to Cusco. So do not recommend the bus between Cusco and Puerto Maldonado, as the road is not good. The original road was notoriously bad so they built a new one a couple of years ago. We left Pto Maldonado at 830pm last night, by midnight we stopped due to road block. At 5am we started moving...

Another early start, we walked from lodge to the canopy tower which is 32 metres tall so we were same level as tree tops, spent an hour up there watching macaws fly across. They are such beautiful birds and fly so beautifully as well. The tower looked so large and sturdy from the ground but at the top is really quite small, there was 6 of us and just enough room. We then walked further on as we heading to mammal clay lick, along the way Pedro sighted a Harp Eagl...

Early start, up the river and a trek through the rainforest. We all had to wear gumboots and quickly found out why as we waded through water and sticky mud. If I stopped in the mud it would almost pull my boot off when I went to move again, is basically clay. Few close calls slipping and sliding. We sat in small huts for a couple of hours watching the bird clay luck, an area were all different birds come in to feed on the clay, is a source of sodium for them. ...