The Inca Trail Days 2 & 3

After just ten minutes on the trail we were held up by the queue at the next check point. But at least we had a map to view. We were at Wayllambamba, 3,000m and we would have to climb over the pass at Warmiwanusca at 4,200m to reach our next camp at 3,700m.

Some of the tracking was through open country and some was through forest such as here with a porter carrying a heavy load.

A view looking back down the valley from the pass at 4,200m with Jane with her arms spread wide at the exhilaration of after a long struggle having made it to the top.

It is compulsory to have a few selfies...one of me at the top.

We were well ahead of the rest of the party and we settled down to wait for the rest of the group. It was cold and windy but Jane had the perfect solution...to huddle down and wait. It reminded me of the cemetery figures that we had sen just a few weeks earlier at Chinchilla.

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Maki settle down as well but fell asleep under her underproof and windproof poncho.

Our next campsite was in an exposed location and after the rain, the streams were easy to see.

The next day we were only a little way up the path but we could see our camp in the middle of the picture but the two splashes of water seen in the earlier photo still early visible.

We had reached the next Inca ruin of a runners midday way point set high above the valley.

An  view of the same spot from a lot further away taking in the mountains and the valleys of the area that we were walking through. The camp site is a slight blur underneath the clouds in the photo to the right.

After the next pass we were going don but came to another Inca ruin, well preserved but needed a climb of more than a hundred steps to reach.

A close up of a detail but it wasn't earthquake damage but the walls were built at an angle on purpose to give them some earthquake resistance.

 A  view of some of the site through an open window.

Me standing at the entrance to a tunnel through which the trial runs.

 There would have ben great views but the low cloud obscured the view.