Today is our last day before we begin the trek - we went to Peru Treks office last night to get our briefing - there will be 16 hikers total in our group plus about 30 porters, 2 guides, assistant guides and a chef. The porters carry everything we need except for our daypacks - they haul our sleeping tents, dining tent, all cooking necessities, food water, etc. over the trail. Our only job is to carry our packs and hike from one campsite to the next each day. Yesterday we took a horseback riding tour of 4 different ruins - I was really looking forward to this, because while in Lima I picked up a magazine that had beautiful pictures from Peruvian Paso Fino horse farms in the area. So I was picturing riding a
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