Hostal San Blas Cusco

... on this trip and have one of my best friends with me. He is holding his own and loving every second of it.

It is hard to predict how you will travel with someone. Some people just want to party all day and night. Others want to spend their whole time in museums. Some look for the most thrilling adventures. Derrel and I are a great combination of all. I can only provide a quick rundown because it has taken me almost 2 ...

... amazing views all the way down to the city. Our guide gave us a tour which lasted a couple of hours and I’m sure he told us a lot but I admit to not listening to a lot of it and just soaking up the atmosphere of the place. The crazy people in our group climbed the other mountain - for me anymore steps and I might have cried but it was also a frightening looking climb with even more precipitous cliffs than some of the trail, I know ...

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... mixture of highland tussock and high jungle. In total we completed 17kms and I managed to do some damage to my left archilles tendion. That evening at camp I was given a bath of warm water and coca leaves to relieve the swelling. Again, fantastic food from the crew.

DAY THREE
We started at 7.30am with an early finish at 1pm. Most of the walk was through middle to low jungle being at around 2000 - 3000m. Lots of introduced Euculyptus ...

... tourist centre. There must be hundreds of thousands of visitors to this city all interested in it`s Inca past. Almost every street has remains of Inca walls, arches and doorways; the perfect stonework now serving as the foundations for more modern dwellings. It is a city with space and greenery, sunshine and warmth (though it does get very cold at night). Of course, it has hundreds of tourist shops, street sellers, travel and tour operators and a ...

... toward the ruins, we saw a sign pointing to Mount Machu Picchu. Some people were just exiting, and they told us it was about an hour hike. "Cool!", we thought. But we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. It was climbing up, up, up, up forever! We almost quit several times. Thought it was never going to end! We passed a couple people who were coming down after about a half hour of going up. They said we had about an hour ...

... like Floyd Landis (Karen & Chris will understand) and didnt need Blanco`s help anymore, we had an extremely steep rocky climb to our highest pass for the day at 4300m, it took about 2hours or more. Wait till you see these amazing photos, it made the battle during the morning worth it. From this pass we had 2-3hrs downhill, some of it really steep to our first camp site. During the whole trek the food was great you definately couldnt starve, the ...

... town as it includes agricultural land, urban areas, temples, and other buildings. It is completely amazing that they bult this whole city on top of a mountain! Even more so that they did it 600 years ago!

Amy and I took 2 days to walk around the site. We left by lunchtime each day because it was getting hot and the bugs were starting to come out. Plus if you get there early there are not that many people there. Most of the tourists show up around 10am when the tour busses get ...

... mind can go crazy, let me tell you. Will the pilot take any chances and try to land or not. Cannot think of those things. As the plane circled way up above the clouds, we could see on the small televisions screens the route that it was taking. It passed Cusco by 30 miles, then 50 miles, then back to 30 miles, 5 miles etc...

After a good 30 minutes of circling, the pilot announced over the microphone that ...

... So much so that on the way from the ruins back to the horses, it became exhausting just to listen to him.

Finally....we reached the horses and the horseman who were waiting for us to ride back to the ranch. However, we had to cross the main road again. The road looked more like a freeway this time. We sensed the horses getting nervous and they must have sensed us being nervous too. My mule was the last to cross the road – cars ...