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| June 4, 2007 - We got an early start today, waking up around 5:30 a.m., packed up, had breakfast, and left by 7 a.m. We did a short hike at Ollantaytambo (Temple of Pacha Mama, Mother Earth), and drove to the trailhead for the start of our Inca Trail hike (finally) before noon. As we would get accustomed, lunch and all the meals on the trails were out of the world good! For our first lunch, we had fresh salad and chicken stir fry, and fruit desert. For dinner, we had Inca cereal (porridge like soup), trout, and canned peach for desert. Although we had tried to be prepared, we were still all in awe and shocked to see how hard the porters worked. In the end, I believe we had some 24 cooks and porters and 2 guides supporting us 10 city slickers. During the day, we carried our day packs (clothes, sun lotion, etc.) while the porters carried our (obnoxiously huge) tents, our gourmet food, and other group gears. All our needs were taken care of, including cooking of food, cleaning of dishes, making of tea, setting up of the toilet tent (by the way, the toilet tent is fine if you are the first one to use it after it's set up, but otherwise, I'd much rather do the bush and cat hole routine than go into that thing...), down to preparing of hot water in the afternoon to wash our body and in the morning to wake up. Grace and I both thought that it was interesting that our morning wake up call consisted gently of a cup of hot tea and a bucket of hot water.... |
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