Oh yeah it was pretty rough - yes I loved it. It's so pretty I mean you heard it so
many times, you seen it so many times and finally seeing it yourself
It's rewarding
Good morning from Cusco yeah I don't know if it's morning
It's about 3 o'clock in the morning and we are waiting for a van
We've been up since 2 o'clock actually just to get ready to walk down
here for about 15 minutes and be ready for our next adventure today, which is
going to Rainbow Mountain. Rainbow Mountain is some place that we've always
wanted to go and we're working today with Rainbow Mountain Travels, they're gonna pick us
up here before 3 o'clock 3:30 yeah so we should be maybe 10 or 15 more
minutes at the latest so we're just standing here at the Munay Wasi Inn
waiting for our van to take us on a two-hour drive, to a place where we're
going to do an hour-and-a-half trek up about 5,000 feet
You think Cusco is high but Rainbow Mountain is actually about 5,000 feet
higher. Before there, supposedly we gonna stop buying a place to get a
breakfast but I don't know what I can eat anything at two o'clock in the
morning. Anyway, we're gonna go back here and play with
our puppies that we found while we're waiting for that bus to show
For breakfast, the recommended drink is the coca or muna tea just to acclimate with
the higher altitude here. It's warm, it's nice.
All right here we go after an hour drive from the breakfast place, we finally
arrived at the starting point of our hike we are about to hike for about an hour and a half
and on the way there, gonna be flat except the last maybe 10 percent of the
track, it's gonna be pretty steep so we're just gonna take your time. So far
so good even though the altitude is pretty high over 5,000 meters of
elevation supposed to be much much higher later on so we're just gonna take
it slow and easy the Sun is out at least it's not gonna be snow we were told that
yesterday was actually snowing in rainbow mountain but this one is that we
open the rift valley
vamos a ver este camino
hence up at the florida supposed to be good for you were not getting sick in
the altitude very strong rap in the face but mounting is located wish me luck
and let's start the hike
okay here we are rainbow mountain I'm already beat out we are about four
minutes from 30 seconds into the hike only another hour and 24 minutes and a
half left to go I hope it's like this the whole time this is easy anyway you
gotta catch up to the group Oh God are you feeling don't sound good I'm
feeling pretty good I'm gonna make it that's good I've called Florida oh gosh
yes yes there was snowing I've heard this yesterday story is rain it's
raining
did you see the rainbow no really Wow lucky for us ya know there's people up
there that's where we're going yep definitely started to fill it just short
of breath in started climbing up the hill we'll be okay
we'll be okay
I get hit with something it's like a heart palpitation but it's more like a
breath palpitations I'm going and then and then there's that jarring breath I
know I'm gonna make it yesterday I wanna keep saying I'm not going to
because it makes me feel better to complain anyway I'm wording up for it so
what are we going and eventually we're gonna be going up here and all the way
up this is where we're gonna end up right now we're at the equivalent of
around base camp and the rest is pretty steep uphill right now if what we're
doing right now what's flat it would take about ten minutes but I think it's
gonna take at least half an hour to get up there maybe more maybe some oxygen if
someone has some oxygen certainly a bit chilly but it's gonna be fine at least
it's not snowing there's snow on the ground but there's no precipitation in
the air today so we're gonna be good not easy 45 this is one of the hardest
things I've done I want a horse find me a horse like this don't pay them for
it's buy the damn horse just behind me is the optional track that we could do
after the rainbow mountain it's called the red valley it's supposed to be sort
of flat then all the way up to the top again we're wanting at the time rainbow
mountain it is just to give you perspective the actual rainbow mountain
is here you can see all the colors and striping and then to view it you have to
climb all the way up here to look this way so close but yet so far
pull yourself up it helps we made it to the bottom of rainbow mountain and we
still need to go all the way to the viewpoint I guess but we sold it here
yay I will feel like I made it as far as I know we'll go up there it's not that
far it's du Bois maybe in like a minute
he'll do it lots of vodka coughing your lungs oh yeah surprise surprise
there's our Packers up here hey I never heard you complaining once I was dying I
think I was too busy dying all the way up to BC dying yeah but we're here we
are we made it we're all here together yeah
be on the very top off we need to go today we have made it all 5,000 75
meters or things six thousand six hundred feet to the top of rainbow
mountain a place that wasn't even really known about five years ago and now about
two thousand people a day visit here and as you see it's kind of packed so it's
kind of hard to get yourself easier than everything like that but we made it to
the top that's the main thing it's really windy up here it's really cold
and now we're gonna stop and go down right yeah how it goes out I don't I
can't feel my nose anymore and my fingers are in my pocket I was
complaining the whole time but I was gonna do that anyway because it makes me
feel a bit better but honestly it's not that bad looking back it's not bad but
doing it oh yeah it was yeah someone told me it was tougher than the Inca
Trail and it probably is but the Inca Trail goes for several days of doing the
same thing I loved it it is so pretty I mean you heard it so many times you've
seen it so many times and finally seeing it yourself it's rewarding for sure is
let's walk down I'm so glad we got here as early as we did because there are
literally many many hundreds more people now everybody's hiking up and we're
coming down I just realized that this is where you can drive it a horse still yes
then you have to hike from this point on in a lot of people definitely struggling
yeah well we've been offering encouragement because after having done
it we know that it's worth it so even
though I was having a really terrible time I knew from being up there was
worth it so I tell a few people that on the way up who were a couple of people
they said they were about to tap out so anyway back to the van yeah good good
yes love it a lot of horses getting good workouts
today I'm 210 pounds and I would not get on a horse I would not just wouldn't do
that to the horse but you know what they're probably so strong that it's
probably nothing to them when you do this trip to rainbow mountain I'm going
to suggest there you go with the company that we did and the reason for that is
because you leave at 3:30 in the morning and you get here at a reasonable time
and by the time you get up on the rainbow mountain you are one about
probably 60 or 70 people on the mountain and if you can look behind me right now
you'll notice we're on our way down it's about 9:30 9:00
five and there are literally hundreds and hundreds of people on the mountain
right now so sure you can get a cheaper in town but rainbow mountain travels
offers the entire thing for $30 that includes all your transportation in a
nice van is your breakfast did mission and it includes lunch and your way back
so $30 is great for that the guys are great too
and the guy just told me that they have about 2,000 people every day on this
little mountain and then both my own travels takes about 200 people to make
this a good call the yeah very good quality you get there early you get the
first glance at the mountain so we totally recommend it anyway that's it
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company that we went with totally acclimated now I'm gonna run up you
actually believe I'll serious where what are you doing I'm just trying to see
where I am on the video