See It Do It Live It

Apparently four days of walking wasn’t enough for us so Cath, Diane and I got up at 4 am to climb the 3000 steps to Machu Picchu, with the other following shortly behind on a bus. It was pitch black as we climbed and already warm, but just as we were starting to feel like we wouldn’t make it, we found our rhythm, dawn broke and we snatched glimpses of the Inca terraces. We reached the top just before the others and had enough time to change t-shirts and cool…read more

We had decided to do the five day Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu. Salkantay is a quechua word meaning ‘Savage Mountain’ and this beautiful trek takes you up to snowy mountains and down through tropical rainforest. The trek peaks at 6271 m above sea level (Ben Nevis is 1344 m) and isn’t for the faint hearted. We were going to be camping outdoors every night and were all slightly worried about how cold it was going to be. We were to be joined by two others and joked about the…read more