Cusco

Early start for a flight to Cusco, bit of a wait at the airport but our guide was a great help to the group. Long queues and flight delay so smashed another game of deal on the floor. Scary flight landing in the Andes, but the views were spectacular. Met with our group and guide, tour around city and lunch. Hit the North face shops! Zoe struggling with Altitude, actually we all were. Headaches galore. Went to Sacred valley and Ollyantambo, via textile village project and scary bus driver! Started the Inca Trail, Altitude hit us straight away but brought the group together. Views amazing, porters phenomenal, cooks great 3 courses for every meal even rustled up a honeymoon cake for the honeymooners. Played shhithead and introduced the foreigners to Deal! Scariest toilets in the world and no shower for 4 days, we STINK! We all survived Dead womans pass altitude 4200m which was really steep steps up for 2-3 hours and the Gringo Killer which was 7km of steep steps. Reached the sungate overlooking maacchu picchu and struggled with tthe sun walking around the ruins. It was an amazing finish and the group did amazing, we all made it. On the other trek 6 out of the 11 had to turn back. Great train ride back to ollyantambo and flushing toilets and hot water. Bus ride tio Cusco was a killer 2 hours but was loveley overlooking the city at night. Reunited with our luggage. Team night out last night drinking til 1am,playing darts with the canadians and interesting bar staff. First lye in of the holiday but still up at 7 am with hangovers! Trekked around town to find immigration office for Zoe as she lost her piece of paper. All sorted now and she can come home lol. Sorry for rubbish blogging and getting in touch with England but internet cafes do not all have skype and often everything is in spanish! Off to Mcdonalds for a taste of home before briefing with group for trip to Amazon in the morning. Flying to amazon tomorrow morning we have heard from the others that it is very nice with good food and hot water. Who knows! Speak soon Nic, Lee and Zoe