Madrid airport, where they laid on a meal for us after a 4 hour delay to our flight to Lima
The front of the hotel in Lima, possibly the grimmest city on Earth, where there's so much pollution that the sun never shines
A band playing at Cusco airport
A street on the way from the airport
The view from my room in Cusco
The fountain opposite the hotel
The other side of the fountain
Me in a cafe in Cusco square
Another building down the road to our hotel
A band playing at the hotel when we had dinner.
The 1st stop on our day's acclimatisation walk
Me on top of a mountain, just before I nearly fell off after getting a text saying Southend had scored!
A woman with a couple of Llamas, or is it the other way round?
The view from where we started
The road leading down to where we had lunch
Cusco football stadium, as seen from the top
Some thing hanging from a tree
Me in front of the place we stopped for lunch
The entrance to the ruin at Saqsaywaman (pronounced Sexywoman!)
The view from Saqsaywaman
Some kid dressed up like a twat
Me with Ian, Kenjy, Matt & Ewan having a celebratory pint after the acclimatisation walk
Some place where we stopped on the way to starting the trail the next day
Matt, the person who's snoring stopped me sleeping all week!
A village where we stopped on the way to the trail
Another side of the village with the most pleasant toilets in the world!
The drop down the mountain, the ledge being the same width as our coach!
The entrance to the Inka Trail (I'm actually standing below the sign but you'll have to take my word for it!)
The bridge leading to the start of the trail
Looking down on the path where we started
Another view from higher up
Another view of the ruin, where we stopped for lunch on the 1st day of the trail
A place we stopped for a rest in the afternoon
The Porters welcoming us as we reached our 1st night's campsite (there were 80 porters for the 44 of us)
Me at 5am the next morning!
Looking down at where we walked at the start of day 2
Me attempting to put my contact lens back in after it fell out when I looked up to take a photo!
The path, continuing upwards for several more hours
And still the path continues...
Me showing immense enthusiasm after stopping for a rest on day 2
Still the path continues onwards & upwards
The view from where we stopped
The place where we had lunch on day 2
And still the trail continues for several more hours after lunch
And finally!, reaching Dead Woman's Pass, the highest point of the trail at 4,200 metres
Me & Matt at Dead Woman's Pass
Me & Georgina, the Essex contingent!
The path to our 2nd night's campsite, this time going down, for another couple of hours
And finally, the campsite
Day 3 of the trail, starting with another climb of 200m
Pam being carried by the porters after getting ill (I'll be following shortly!)
Me at the top, covered in sun cream, as I start to develop acute altitude sickness
The view from our lunch stop
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