Chaska Wasi Hostel Ollantaytambo

... that weīd all be freely talking about our bowl movements within a week and that it was quite normal. Most people looked totally aghast when she said this, including myself. I couldnīt quite understand why it would take as long as a week! I guess it is just school boy humor but I think itīs funny. Anyway, the tour leader was bang on the numbers, it is the main topic of convo now.
Back to the toilets on day2 of the camp then....although we had all new 2 man dome tents to sleep in ...

... hotel I met these two American sisters who also happen to be travelling with Cultural Immersion, and we had a nice conversation in the afternoon sun in the garden by the hotel. After having relaxed a bit in the hotel room I went out for dinner. But again I failed to find the restaurant mentioned in my guidebook – only to discover after my spaghetti carbonara at a desolated restaurant, that it was straight across the street. I was not keen on going straight back to ...

... to the company) of Llama Path that unfortunately happened the following days as well. Normally we had to walk another hour, but because of this beautiful place and beautiful weather we decided to stay here and call it a day. After lunch we relaxed until diner and after diner we played some cardgames. At 9.30 PM we crawled into our tents, to be fit the next day and start day 3 of our trail.

On day 3 we again received a huge breakfast and were fully ready to enter the ...

... but nothing too difficult. But to just be flying down the mountain with the wind beating at you and the cars sometimes passing on the other side with such amazing views. Ag. It was majestic.

But then when we stopped for lunch it rained. And our next part was to be on dirt roads. And rain meant mud instead. I couldnīt even eat lunch because all the wind had passed through my lungs and dried it out and I was already miserable from a little ...

... headed down to the closest town called Aguas Callientes for lunch. We got certificates from Roberto and he showed us a small museum with photos of Machu Picchu when it was first discovered. Aguas Callientes is a nice little town, made entirely for tourists. It's full of little stalls and bars and is well known for it's hot springs (hence the name), so we thought we'd check those out for the afternoon. What we were greeted with were dirty brown pools with a top ...

... was still concerned at this point about my walking pace and had taken place in front of me so that I could not go any faster than her. We arrived at some very steep steps, apprently the record for climbing them was 9 seconds, Ruth wanted to challenge this and ran up the steps in 12 seconds, very impressive and a great distraction from how I was feeling, I took my turn at climbing the steps and must have achieved a record breaking 60 seconds.

Finally we ...