Weather... Boiling
Llamas... Still a happy 0.
After the excitement of the day before the 8 hour trek today felt long.
In the morning we waked along a very long road that supplied all the local mines. It was boiling, but it did have the added adrenaline factor of sudden death by rampaging mining lorry or car at any moment.
Lunch consisted of pasta vegetables and cheese.. all eaten on the edge of a railway. The Turkish and Dutch guys had finally sobered up... One discovered that he had walked the whole morning in flip flops and socks. The guide had tried to change this, but he had been very insistent on this particular combination.
In the afternoon we walked to the base camp of Machu Pichu... the tourist town of Agua Calientes. It was a wonderful trek through the jungle, with steep mountains on either side... and the added fun of being on train tracks, with the odd train trying to run you over when it felt like it.
Compared to the day before it was rather muted, and the sight of Machu Pichu on the top of a very big hill meant everyone went to bed very early. No Inca Tequila was touched.
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