And yes another 5am wake up and hiking at 6.30am. We walked the 16km and saw a number of Inca ruins and wild Lama! The difference between Albaca and Lama is that Alpacca have short ears anda squashed face whilst Lama are taller with a longer face and ears. The first Inca site we saw was a resting place for the urnner who would run as far as Lima – to deliver Fish to the King! We did a little uphill over Runkuraquay Pass at 3900m, and then had a nice lunch. We then headed back along the Inca trail – including through a tunnel made by the Inca and along a wall they made – it was really amazing. On our way to the last Inca site we saw a Tucan! The last Inca site of Intipata was where we saw the wild Lama. 20 minutes later we where back at camp having another sink was – well I was Josh went for another cold shower out of a hosepipe! Dinner and bed tonight at 7.30pm as tomorrow we leave at 3.30am!! Tonight we met the cook and all the porter san gave them a ‘thank-you’ card and a tip. Tomorrow they leave us at 3.30am and go back on the train to Cusco. The porters where all quite young – there where 13 of them and 1 cook to 8 of us. Our head porter was 21 years of age and he had been a porter for 5 years! They now have an age restriction and they are not allowed to be a porter until they are 17. A detail I have failed to mention over our trip was the toilet facilities – if you could call them that! My preferred choice was the Inca Toilet – AKA the bush – but this was only allowed for number 1’s! For 2’s you had to brave the squat toilet, which wouldn’t have been so bad except it not only did not flush but toilet paper was not allowed to be put into it so if you where lucky there was a stinky bucket collecting toilet paper in the corner of the room, if you where unlucky then the paper was just thrown in the corner! In this last place the toilet was so disgusting as people where clearly not skilled at using the squat and missed – need I say more! Let’s just say for 4 days I used only the Inca Toilet – I now cannot wait to have a shower and use the toilet!
The team of us plus the porters and the cook at the third campsite.
Walking along the Inca Wall (above)
Check out the Inca Terraces in the picture below, we then walked down to them and saw the Lama - we had the picture with.
