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Travel Blogs from Inca Trail, Peru
The Inca Trail or Trial? (Day One)
This is a top pick! ... ; 4 gruelling days. All ending with 1 memorable moment... Machu Picchu! Before coming down to Peru, I knew I needed to hike the infamous Inca Trail. It´s perhaps one of the most reknowned hikes in all the world. After all, few trails ...
Inca Trail (Day Three)
This is a top pick! Although it's not as gruelling as climbing Dead Woman's Pass, day three of the Inca Trail is the longest. With coca tea in hand, I arose to a gorgeous sunrise over the valley. With such beauty before me, I was confident today would be a lot more ...
The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
This is a top pick! ... at lunch to say goodbye to our fantastic guides, Angel and James. Four days doesn’t exactly count as an era but we had a really great time on the Inca Trail – great company, excellent food and I'm happy that I could do it with Dad! ...
Walking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
This is a top pick! ... one of the highlights of our trip. This is one of the first reasons that I wanted to travel in South America - to walk the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu and get to understand a little more about the Inca civilisation. We had an early pick up at 7:00am ...
The Inca Trail (Day Two)
This is a top pick! ... today. At a height of about 4200 m, the biggest challenge today involved overcoming the first of three mountain passes on the trail. As a whole, it took our hiking group about 5 hours to climb to the top of it. There were numerous lengthy stops ...
Walk like an Inca, sleep in a puddle
This is a top pick! Finally, after a few days´ wait in Cusco, the day of our departure on the Inca Trail dawned. On Thursday 12 January at about 7am, we were all packed and ready for the the great adventure; we were picked up by bus with quite a number of other tourists and ...
Upstairs, Downstairs
This is a top pick! ... being hassled to death by 8-year-olds in Cusco, but hopefully my business will prevent some of them becoming a porter on the Inca Trail (damn, I think Callous Westerner is going soft). Don't get me wrong, the four-day hike along the trail is without ...
In the footsteps of the ancients
This is a top pick! ... of the whole trip. The 3 weeks of travelling in Peru had all been building up to getting us along the 4 days of Inca Trail with hopefully as little altitude sickness and general "south america sickness" as possible - and in most cases it was pretty ...
Day Three -- Inca Trail
This is a top pick! ... a moment to take it allin before continuing the descent. At this point we coudl take one of two paths, either the long origonal Inca path or a short cut made for the porters. We were knackered but of course we had to take the longer path ! We passed ...
Day Three Inca Trail
This is a top pick! ... camp was the first civilization we had seen in days. A small house that sold beer and had music, we managed to turn into `Club Inca` as we called it, and danced until they kicked us out. We crawled back to our tents for two or three hours of sleep. We ...
Day One of the Inca Trail
This is a top pick! ... the cook's assistant's assistant, the logistics man and eight porters, one of whom will double up as our waiter. I'd underestimated the Inca Trail before it had even begun. Things did not bode well. Day one is generally regarded as a gentle opener and ...
Day Two of the Inca Trail
This is a top pick! Day 307 - Day Two of the Inca Trail Today the 'fun' really began! I hadn't envisaged the Inca Trail to be a piece of cake and any ideas derived from yesterday concerning that theory being inaccurate were soon put in their place. We trekked separately ...
Pain Sweet Pain yet an unbelievable accomplishment
This is a top pick! ... I´ll see how much I can get in. Wednesday morning we left Cuzco City, which used to be the capital city of the Inca Empire, through the sacred valley following a path of Inca ruins and to the city of Ollantaytambo to view the fortresses. We stopped ...
Day Three of the Inca Trail
This is a top pick! Day 308 - Day Three of the Inca Trail After yesterday's Herculean efforts (OK, a touch of hyperbole there) we thought it was downhill from now on. While literally this was true (barring an initial ascent), metaphorically speaking this was not the case. ...
Day Four of the Inca Trail
This is a top pick! Day 309 - Day Four (Last Day) of the Inca Trail The two hours of what from the cross ection appeared to be flat walking, turned out to be a nausea-inducing undulating track made infinitely worse by my hangover and inflexible legs. The initial part was ...
4 days trekking, no showers, amazing result
... nbsp; The Sun Gates were packed with gringos so we continued down to Machupiccu and of course took loads of pictures. Our Inca Trail guide gave us a great tour of Machupiccu for about 2 hours. Machupiccu is incredibly special as it is the only ...
coco leaves are not drugs
... to trail head (know here as KM 82)- we crossed the bridge over the Urubamba River and began to hike along the Inca Trail. Hiking through native farmlands becoming vary familiar with the corn and potatoe crops. Stopped at Llactapata an Inca ...
To the highlight of the tour of peru the ...
To the highlight of the tour of Peru, the Inca Trail and the fabled ancient city of Machu Picchu. When this trip was first planned, this was always the main target, how could you possibly resist the attraction of the ancient "lost city" of the Incas, ...
Inca Trail - Day 1
... the hotel in Ollantaytambo to take us to the starting point of the Inca Trail trek. Half of our group was doing the Inca Trail in combination with another GAP group, while the other half of our group was doing the alternative Lares trek. Today was ...
Inca Trail, Cusco, Peru
We woke up at 5am to get to the beginning of the Inca Trail, but Dave was immediately sick outside of our hotel. He made it to the town before the trail, where our guides made him buy some random antibiotics. The trail starts at km88, and ...
The Inca Trail
... . I'm pretty sure they were jealous. Another 30 minutes driving and we reached Kilometer 82, the start of the traditional Inca Trail. There were 8 people in our tour group, and about 14 porters for us. These porters are local Quechua ...
Machu Picchu - A Wonder of the World
... up with all the tour groups. We hadn't seen too many people the day before since most sane people do not try to attempt the full trail in 3 days. It required us to hike for 12 hours on day two. We passed through the Sun Gate, but it was cloudy so ...
The 4 day Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
... carved into the hillside. The site was used for growing coca for medicinal and ceremonial purposes. Elated by completing the Inca trail, we camped next to the river under ruins boosting a sacrificial alter for worshipping the moon. That made perfect ...
Hiking the Inca Trail
... 's Pass, and stopped to wring the sweat out his t-shirt while we shivered and took pictures. For the runner's reading this - Inca Trail to Machu Picchu is 28 miles long. It was the toughest marathon I've ever walked. Apparently they have a ...
Indiana Jill and the Gringo Killer
... back watching for stragglers. I just keep polling along, pulling my self up over the steeper parts. I have been told that the trail does become gentler towards the summit. By now I feel as though I have been walking on my own for a long ...
The Inca Trail
... and Mikey did a different walk - The Lares Trek - so we´d see them in 4 days at Macchu Picchu. The Inca Trail is a 4 day, 44 or 45 km trek from Ollantaytambo to Macchu Picchu, along a trail laid out by the Incan People of Peru ...
Indiana Jill Meets Raggedy Ann
... the path is narrow and the drop is a long way down. I cross one more rickety bridge to find a piece of the narrow trail reinforced with a piece of old log. I get past this part with my heart pounding and lean against the side of the mountain ...
INKA-redible :-)
The Inca Trail - the only trip I actually booked before I left home (aside from the obvious one) so I´ve had plenty of time to look forward to it. Unfortunately we were informed at the beginning that there had been a landslide across the trail just a ...
The Divas
... view of Machu Picchu mountain to focus on. That evening after dinner, we had the porters and chefs presentation, which is an Inka Trail tradition, usually attended and hosted by more people than just us 2! It is the time you thank the team for all ...
Inca Trail Day 2: Operation Touch the Nipple
... and a top, my fleece and a sleeveless shirt in my pack so that I would have some dry things to change into (for aspiring Inca trail trekkers, it is VERY important to keep a set of dry clothes, as nothing dries at altitude, especially if it is pouring ...