Last night I was much warmer! My makeshift hot water bottle worked a treat and I stuffed my coat around my feet to keep me toasty!
As always we were woken up with hot coca tea at out tents and bowls of hot water for our faces. Amazing.
Strangely, Eliza and I both woke up with puffy eyes... One of elizas eye lids had turned purple over night and I looked like I had a face reconstruction!! Luckily it all went down through the day!
After bacon, eggs and fried banana for breakfast we were off again for another 5 hour hike.
Before leaving we got to meet a pack of Alpacas that have been introduced into the near by township. When I booked our tour I had the option of choosing to do a 'community trek' or 'classic trek'. I chose the community trek for a few reasons. One reason being that part of the money we spend on our tour goes towards helping to rebuild and help the small villages around the trek. Over the past couple of years the company have gifted around 400 alpacas, have helped with reforestation and have recently rebuilt bridges that we crossed over today.
Although the tour took a quite a chunk of our savings, seeing that my money is going towards something that is so vital for someone else makes it all worth it.
Todays walk was just beautiful. We made our way through what felt like rainforests, with beautiful flowers, birds, streams and of course the mountains in the background.
It took us about 5 hours, ending with us putting our disgusting feet in the stream and sitting in almost disbelief and pride that we had actually made it!
A bus was waiting for us to take us to a nearby town called Ollantaytambo where we have checked in to a hotel for the night.
Tomorrow.... Machu picchu!
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