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Elvis is in the Building - Inca Highland Trek

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




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