Cuzco by night
Some silly tourists in front of an inca fortress. Some of these stones are up to 130 tonnes but placed to perfection, without any mortar.
Inca site overlooking the valley.
Typical market, and typical Peruvian women wearing bowler hats.
In the beautiful Plaza de Armas in Cuzco
Starting the inca trail - Marcela was wishing she could put her pack on these horses, but in the end she just gave it all to me! 
Campsite night 1 - 3700m and about 2 deg!
The whole group - 10 of us plus 2 guides and about 7-8 porters and cooks
Both of us looking relieved to make the highest pass of the trail - 4215m
A typical porter carrying way too much gear (up to 30kg by just a rope or cloth wrapped over their shoulders) - the sandals they wear cost about $1.50. They were truly superhuman!!
Just many of the countless rocky ascents over the trail. This porter just jogged past me like I was standing still and will overtake all in the picture within a minute or two!
A nice view on the trail.
Another amazing view - hard to tell from the pic just how steep these terraces and slopes really are.
One of the best views of all - reaching camp on night 3 where there was a bar and a lookout. Happy faces all around!!
Dawn on the last day and our first peek of Machu Picchu. Looking a bit knackered as we had been up since 3:45am and hiked up some steep stairs to arrive at this location named Intipinku - The Sun Gate.
I'm sure everyone has seen thousands of pictures of MP so I'll just post one up here. I climbed the little mountain you can see in the background of the above pic (the one on the left) and saw some amazing views - see below:
The view looking back at MP from the little hill. The Sun Gate is right on the edge of the picture - top left hand corner.
Llama in MP gardens.
1 comment:
in awe Timbo!
ye got some gud ritin skills their bro.
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