So we're in the town of Peru getting ready to hop on Peru rail to
head to wherever it is we're going to head to get onto the Inca Trail. By
itself, the train ride is pretty amazing. You''ll travel through some pretty
spectacular scenery on your way to the Inca Trail and parallel to the Urubamba River, which is pretty epic we're getting ready to arrive and our stop
look at where we are right now as data remember any name with ending Bamba
means valet when you realize that point where we're gonna have a line like three
hours just about four hours in order to make this plane
this must be a four hour hike to our first stop and then I think we have
another two-hour hike after that
so the trail we're hiking is called the Camino Trail our hike started off by
crossing that st. epic river that we had been firing our entire train that bridge
was a lot Shaker than I was coming I'm feeling there's going to be a lot of
selfies on this hike Jimmy is one of our guys today he's
gonna make sure we don't die okay I was kind of only half joking with our god
Jimmy there well I wouldn't call this hike treacherous you will be hiking
along some narrow paths with thousand foot drop offs to either side of you
there are so many Incan ruins along this trail after only five minutes of hiking
we ran into our first sight this is a Spalding every mine this is part of the
Incas construction so when we talk about the e because you know it's one of the
last musician running in South America as I mentioned before we're on the trail
known as the Camino Real de los incas also known as the sacred Inca Trail or
the two-day Trek we hiked the two-day Trek in one day normally you hike in
four hours to wean a wine na and you can't somewhere near there and then you
do the rest of the two hours too much of each of the next day but we hiked the
entire six hours in one day almost two hours in it's beautiful here at 10:00
mate our guides this is like a walk in a park for them I'm a little bit out of
shape got another two hours hopefully I can
make it all the way through I'm definitely making it all the way through
but it's definitely a little bit more challenging than a walk through Central
Park the next two hours took us through some pre breathtaking scenery you're
probably going to get tired of me using words like breathtaking beautiful
amazing epic but there's really no other way to describe this place and just as
winay wayna became visible we ran into this gorgeous waterfall
okay where we are right now is a place for that winay wayna whatever done so
the location of this place it's close to my picture and they gasp really view
this place dream or DPP century two fifteen thirty after climbing a few more
600 year old Incan staircases we finally made it to our lunch spot so we just
finished the first part of the hike and made it to our lunch spot this lunch was
amazing as well as everything else we ate on this trip the company we hiked
with was called southern Peru explorers and I can't recommend them highly enough
they were very professional and made sure we had an amazing experience
after lunch we got back on the trail and about an hour into it we got our first
glimpse of Machu Picchu to a viewpoint of Machu Picchu this isn't the normal
view point you see like on Instagram this is a different viewpoint it's
beautiful from here nonetheless after about an hour of hiking mostly downhill
which is nice we made it to our destination we made it to Machu Picchu
it's just as all inspiring as I thought it would be actually probably a little
more I don't know if you can see it in my eyes but I was having a little moment
over there a little bit ago I mean it's just gorgeous and for whatever reason
it's later in the day so the group up with you basically have
beat you to herself after about an hour and a half two hours at Machu Picchu we
headed down to our campsite we're going to be camping below Machu Picchu tonight
and then we're gonna go back and hang out a mantra Picchu again tomorrow but
this is where we're camping tonight after another amazing dinner and this
awesome breakfast that you see here we had to back up to Machu Picchu to tour
the interior so we're back at Machu Picchu but it's a little bit different
experience today yesterday we hiked in later in the evening so we basically had
Machu Picchu all to ourselves today is what you'll probably get if you just
come to Machu Picchu you don't do the Inca Trail and no Machu Picchu you'll
basically get kind of a touristy trap experience so I'm interested to see how
different it is today it's also rainy and overcast where yesterday there was
just a few clouds and it was just the perfect weather I think it's going to be
two different Machu Picchu experiences and I'm really happy I had the
opportunity to do Machu Picchu the way we did it yesterday while touring the
interior of Machu Picchu might not be as epic as the hike in it's still a
fascinating and beautiful place to explore I highly recommend getting a
tour guide when you take a tour of Machu Picchu and when you hike the Inca Trail
one thing that I've failed to mention before is all the tour guides that hiked
the Inca Trail or that are at Machu Picchu have to have a college degree
before they can give a tour so these individuals are very knowledgeable in
fact it's their career they've devoted their whole life to this but for this
and during the day you have to see it by the mirrors so the purpose of those
Morton here you see does addiction after a couple
more hours of exploring the interior of Machu Picchu the group I was with we
were all kind of exhausted and ready to head back to cusco little did we know
that the next day we would be hiking rainbow mountain which in my opinion is
an even more difficult - inca trail my name is Kevin and last year I quit my
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