The Inca Trail

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The Inca Trail

 South America » Peru » Cusco By Mark and Fran
May 11th 2007
. Trail of Dreams

Just a gentle 6 hour walk on the first day led us to believe the Inca
trail would be a fairly easy hike. wrong. Pretty hardcore stuff. Fran was all out of energy by the second day (5 hours of uphill trekking with an (apparently) very bad cold) and feeling quite sorry for herself so Mark rode in on his white horse and chivalrously carried her bags.

By the third day though all was good and the scenery and ruins could be fully appreciated. Not for Lucy though who thought she would try run on the second day to keep up with the porters (fitter than Hulk Hogan) and was renedered incapacitated from then on....the calf muscles had seized completely and there was
nothing she could do about it.

Up at 4 in the morning on the last day to see the
sun rise at Machhu Pichu, definately worth it. Incredible ruins...

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Photos

Machu Picchu
Pretty special

Inca Trail 1st day
1st ruins of the day. Inca farming land.

Inca Trail 1st day
The road is long...

Inca Trail 2nd day
Mark made the porters look like little girls, till he tried to move

Inca Trail 2nd day
4 hours all uphill. We started right at the very bottom, easy

Inca Trail 2nd day
Team Inca, Us the guide and the porters.

Inca Trail 2nd day
Entering the cloud forest

Inca Trail 2nd day
This woman had altitude sickness and was carried by the porters most of the 2nd day

Inca 3rd day
Inca´s used this as a check point and trading market

Inca Trail day 3
Going down the "gringo killer" all 5000 steps of it

Inca Trail 3rd day
The road is still very long

Inca 3rd day
This was used by astronomers and farmers

Comments

[anonymous]

WOW - guy's I'm impressed congrats on making it - looks incredible! Keep the info coming! Miss you , keep safe Kath xx

[Edd]

I would just like to congratulate all of you on your very impressive walking sticks! Please bring me one back! Also; if you are accepting constructive criticism, I would like to see more geurning lamas if possible.

[Gloria]

Well done
Well done you guys I'm so impressed and jealous. Thanks Mark for looking after Fran by carrying her back-pack. I'm sure the cold was genuine (good call Fran)! Photos are awesome! keep them coming. Hope your enjoying a well deserved rest on the beach. lots of love Ma and Pa.

[Laurence]

Might need to join you
Hey Mark and Fran looks like you are having an awesome time. I am really jealous. If Man U dont beat Chelsea in the F A Cup Final tomorrow, I will never hear the end of it from your Mom and Emma, so I might need to join you there. Enjoy make the most of it.

[Chazza McGriff]

Tired
You must be tired indeed. How amazing is the 3rd day?! I loved it but yes it is well difficult, innit! Really missing you guys! just working for my final crit on wed... then its the end of this year! xxxxxxxx

[Travis]

Roberts you should have caught one of the lamas and strapped Fran to one of those. Special, the pictures look like it was all worth it in the end. Hopefully see you soon. Trav