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Elvis is in the Building - Inca Highland Trek

I fully understand why so many tours in theglaciers crashed down throwing tons of snow
Guerba brochure visit Peru and Bolivia. Withand ice high into the air and showering us
great food, impressive Inca and colonialwith an amazing snow fall! From the sacred
architecture, lovely people, snow cappedmountain we descended to Hayalabamba, where
mountains, ancient pathways and good valuewe joined the classic Inca trail and headed
for money, both countries are fantastic.Myup towards our camp just before 'Dead Women's
wife Lorraine, eight other travellers and IPass'.Our path then followed the contours of
were on the 'Inca Highlands Trek' a 16 daythe rugged landscape like a giant roller
tour of Peru and Bolivia including ancoaster passing through cloud forest adorned
extended 6 day trek to Machu Picchu. Theby orchids, Inca tunnels and ancient ruins.
first main highlight of the tour was the laidAt Intipunku (the sun gate) we were rewarded
back and rather crazy town of Copacabana onwith our first view of Machu Picchu. It is
the shores of Lake Titicaca. This historicamazing. Without going into another long line
town is dominated by the cathedral, where theof adjectives, it is even more impressive
priests not only care for human souls butthan I expected. Another great plus with the
along with the pagan witch doctor they alsoInca trail is that the main highlight is at
visit the car park to bless all manner ofthe end of the trek, rather than a mountain
vehicles!Copacabana partyAs our visitpeak where on reaching the top you then have
coincided with the festival of the Southernseveral days to trek out. With the promise of
Cross star constellation, party spirits werea relaxed exploration the next day, we left
in full flow and parades of marching bandsthe ancient city and took the bus to our
and dancers wound their way around thehotel in Aguas Calientes. Despite our weary
streets through the night and well into thelegs, we partied well into the night.From
following day. After these celebrations, anstart to finish our guides Raul & Demas, our
early night was called for in preparation forcooks and an army porters made our trek as
our boat trip to the Island of the Sun andenjoyable as possible, just so you can
our introduction to high altitude trekking,imagine how good the food was.The following
where we visited the Inca ruins where theday we had the big tour of the site before
Inca creation legend began.Over the next fewheading back to Cuzco and then on to Lima. At
days we followed the shores of Lake Titicacathis stage of the tour, having worked as a
back into Peru. We crossed the Antiplano,tour leader in Africa for 6 years, I was
stopping at various Inca sites as we headedstruck by how well everything worked during
for Cuzco, a fascinating city that was laterour tour - it took extremely bad weather to
explored and explained on our guided tours.finally disrupt the tour. As we waited with
The wide variety of nightlife and restaurantsthe passengers from the earlier flight at
allowed us to experiment with the many localCuzco airport, Lima airport was still fog
delicacies such as Guinea pig and Llamabound and flights were backing up by the
kebab, with the latter proving to be myhour. Our onward flight connections were
favourite by far!Magical snowfallOur 6 daylooking unreachable. After a call to our
trek started in the village of Mollepata andCuzco office I found out that ourCuzco
followed the little used Inca pathway up thetransfer manager was at the airport already
Apurimac Valley to our camp at the base ofsorting things out. "Elvis is in the
the sacred 6,271m mountain Nevado Salcantay.building" I was told. Having never met him, I
We were rewarded not only with fantasticencountered many strange looks and enjoyed a
views but as we trekked toward the high passfew good comments as I went round the airport
the following day, a huge part of one of theasking, "Are you Elvis?



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