First day of the Inca Trail


We left our hotel at 5.30am with three others from our tour group and 3 guides, for a three hour bus trip to "Mile 84", the end of the road. After about two hours we stopped at a staging town where we picked up our 17 porter's and 9 more trekkers. We are 22 to 64 yrs, 60% women and all from England, Canada and Australia.
We climbed about 400metres and covered about 12 kms that day.
The scenery was beautiful with steep valleys and a river at the bottom with scattered hamlets. Just before lunch we came across an Inca outpost overlooking the ruins of an Inca settlement.

Our view from the tent that night was amazing

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