We have just finished our 4 day Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. The trek was great however we are both well and truly exhausted. This trek was a little different to our last one, as our group consisted of just Andrew, myself, our guide, a chef and five porters. This is apparently unusual, as another group which started on the same day as us had 50 hikers and 100 porters. Our guide was an interesting character. When he told us that his favourite artist of all time was Vanilla Ice and went to the extent of playing "Ice, Ice, Baby" on his disc man for us, we knew we were in for an interesting few days. It was a great time of year for the walk, as there was no rain, the valley was still green
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