The Inka Trail

Trip Start Mar 28, 2008
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Trip End Mar 27, 2009


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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Thursday

Today we started the hike on the Inca Trail - a 47km, 4 day hike. There are porters to carry everything but your daypack and you are allowed a maximum of 5kg per person which includes your sleeping bag. There were 15 people doing the hike with 21 porters. Each porter carries a maximum of 25kg - it is quite unbelievable how they manage it and alot of them wear sandles!

They carry literally eveything - tents, sleeping mats, chairs, food, crockery, eveything you need for 4 days camping.

An hour into the hike things took a turn for the worse!

See Julies blog and Claires blog for the full story!
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