Saturday, July 12, 2014

Machu Picchu - Day 2

Our hiking buddies, dubbed "The dream team" by Angie:


Angie & Chris are the lovely couple on the left from England and Robyn & Darren are the witty ones from Australia on the right. They were such a fun group to hike with. We had a great time explaining what smores were and hearing everyone's different phrases and word choices. One of the most memorable was when someone was hiking by quickly and Robyn said they're really "hooning it." I had to ask her what that meant- basically that they're "booking it" as one might say here. Also, someone called our headlamps, "torches" one night, and we had a good laugh about that as well. I pointed out that "torches are for pillaging!"

And now some pictures from our 2nd day of the trek:


One of the last stops where you could buy bottled water (and a cadbury caramel bar) in my case : )

We saw some avocado trees and then began a a section of the trek that was a bit more jungle like. We were lucky to have nice weather for the duration of the trek which I was so grateful for:

There were lots and lots of stairs (that's an understatement):

We hiked over the biggest pass this day to the highest peak of the trek at almost 14000 ft with snow that was visible not that far off:


So happy to be at the top!

The whole group at the top of the first and biggest of three passes with our guide Elestan on the right:


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