Our 50 mile hike to Machu Picchu

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April 22nd 2010

Published: April 25th 2010

The Salkantay Trek, is also known as the New Inca Trail but its a day longer and much, much harder. We covered 50 miles and climbed 4000 meters. It is also a lot quieter than the Inka trail, the Inka trail currently has 500 people per day on the trail, we saw a maximum of 10 other trekkers throughout the whole 5 days. We booked on the 5 day Salkantay trek to Machu Picchu and it really was a hig... Read Full Entry

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AdamandLouise

Hello All This is our travel blog for our trip around Africa, and all the places we have visited. We are shipping our Landrover out to Africa and will be picking it up in Walvis Bay Namibia We are planning on visiting the following countries Namibia Botswana Zambia Zimbabwe Malawi Mozambique Tanzania Rwanda Uganda South Africa Lesotho Swaziland We will write a different blog for each country we visit and post a route map and itinery of where we are going and planning to visit for each country here is a rough route map of our whole trip [worl... full info

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26th April 2010

Emma McClement
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Vertigo!
Hi there you two, Wasn't it scary to be so high up. Think i would not of been happy. The photos look great and of course i love the one with a baby llama in! I do have one question. It took 5 days to get up there but how long to get down, and how? Think Chel will be jealous cos i think she would love to go and look at Inca rubble! I would if it was at ground level. Where to next? Em ps. Charlie sends big slobbery drool kisses!

26th April 2010

AdamandLouise
Adam& Louise see the world

Got the train back to Cusco took about 3 hours

30th April 2010

Rachel
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Officially jealous
Ok, I might not be able to speak to you two ever again. First the Nazca lines, now Machu Picchu!!! I think there is a greenish tint to my skin right now. Don't think you took enough photos though - do you have more? Is so please don't delete them cos I would like to see them. There are supposed to be some great carvings there - did you see any? Wish I was there instead of here, although at least we dont have giant bugs here. Have fun, and be careful not to damage the archaeology - cos one day I'm going to go there too. I'm off now to get back to work - some of us do that! Take care, and hopefully we can skype soon. x

1st May 2010

AdamandLouise
Adam& Louise see the world

hello again chel took plenty of photos but the ones on the blogs are always the best ones

8th May 2010

AdamandLouise
Adam& Louise see the world

Hello Dad I am in la Paz at the min plenty of bars here

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