Inca Trail

First of all we would both really like to thank Fiona and David for our amazing 4 day inca trail! We booked through their website, ecotrekperu.com and had an amazing time! We were lucky enough to be the only 2 tourists on our trip, and with David (our guide), Fiona (company owner), a chef and 7 porters we totalled 12 people.

We set off at 4.15am last Monday (due to a strike blocking the roads and rail line to Machu Picchu). We managed to negotiate most of the minor road blocks, but eventually came unstuck at a sizeable block about halfway. David, managed to secure us a car on the other side of the barrier (our minibus turned back to Cusco) and so we could continue on our way! We arrived at the beginning of our trek (KM 82) in the pouring rain, but only had to walk 30 minutes before meeting up with our team of chef and porters for breakfast. (Due to a lack of time, I will write a full review of the trip at a later date).
The whole trip lasted for 4 days, and we climbed up to an altitude of 4200m (Dead Womans Pass), we walked for 23 miles, climbed over 1,100m in one day, descended over 1300m on another day, saw many many different ruins (all in the pics), loads of great wildlife, we ate cactus fruit and climbed over what felt like millions of Inca steps!

And the best bit of the trip? For the final 2 days we didn’t see another trekker (only our porters!). This was thanks to the brilliant planning of David.

The photos in the slide show are all in chronological order. Only the last six are of Machu Picchu! We will upload the rest of our Machu Picchu photos (in a separate blog post) later on..