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Machu Picchu Peru Altitude
After months of planning and more than a year of dreaming about it, I finally got on a bus from Arequipa to Cusco to go to The Inca Trail Machu Picchu. My friend from Los Angeles Milana, who used to hike and MTN. bicycle, and Karen, his old friend, joined me in Cusco. We were supposed to be there a couple of days before so you can acclimate, but Milan's flight from Lima was canceled so I arrived around noon the day before our journey began. I had already met Karen the day before and had gotten to know a bit as we did some sightseeing and hiking together near Cusco.
Milana When he arrived, we went to eat at a restaurant just off the square and had to eat ceviche, raw fish is marinated in lemon juice. Either the ceviche or the lack of time to acclimatize to the altitude of 11,000 feet in Cusco, or both, he retires to a bad start. He awoke the next morning sick to the start of our trek of four days. We had enrolled in group travel, waiting up to 12 people, so we were delighted when the mini bus picked us up in the morning to find only two other people on the tour! An almost private tour for group rates. It seemed like such a small group by the time we added a cook and eight porters for our guide, Carlos, making a total of 15 people. But most of the time we were trekking are just six of us porters were packed camp run behind us or ahead to be ready for us. The service was great, but personally morning tea in our tents when we awoke, the dining tent for three meals (though I felt good at the time of the dinner due to cold) and the menu of luxury, so it was something I had given for a cheaper price. Definitely not subscribe to the idea of the ultra light hiking with a cast iron stove and 20 pounds of LP gas tank!
One of the things that surprised me the first day was to see people actually living along the road and cycling round. On the second morning there were women and children with the donkeys going down the path to create is for breakfast, selling candy, snacks, water bottles and even Gatorade! In the afternoon, that was all behind us, as we head to Dead Woman Pass at 13,770 meters, the highest point on the road. The landscape has changed from lush rainforest in the morning to the sparse vegetation and rocks by the way, besides being much cooler. When we stopped in the afternoon to our campsite for the night, I could not sit around waiting for dinner, I kept forward to the next step, exploring back roads en route. Solid clouds beyond the summit ruined my hopes of a spectacular sunset, but it was a good time anyway.
Power on the third day we got into the high forest, thousands of steps, and indeed in some ancient ruins. Also an endless variety orchids and other flowers. One thing we saw was all wild animals, only a few birds. It also seemed the more we went, the more tourists there was. The first day I saw no one else, so I'm not sure where they all came. That night we were back in civilization, with the option a restaurant, hot shower and cold beer, many were enjoying.
The last morning we got up early to be the first on the road, hoping to get pictures of Machu Picchu before there were people there. Actually opened the checkpoint a few minutes earlier and started in the dark, in the last couple of hours on the track, arriving at Machu Picchu, just after dawn. For me, one of the highlights of the visit was to climb Huayna Picchu high peak behind the ruins of the standard all images of Machu Picchu. There was a wonderful journey, rugged and difficult, to the summit where the views are fabulous! I saw a less used trail down the back and followed a ways, but finally had to turn around to face the others and take the bus to Aguas Calientes. Only when I reached the checkpoint at the beginning of the track I learn that it was a circular path and could have continued around the mountain. There was no time bathing in thermal waters, as we got to Aguas Calientes, a little late and then found out we had to leave early to walk to the train that will take us back to Cusco, because of the landslide that had covered the tracks on the edge of town. A final surprise was that night when the train stopped a couple of hours before Cusco and the driver said it was the end of the trip. I never knew why, but ended up having to take a taxi the rest of the way to Cusco, fortunately, come without problems.
The trip was great, Machu Picchu was amazing and something that pictures can not do justice a. Never the less, I took about 400 photos, trying to capture the grandest of living again later. I look forward to the area to hike to Choquequirao Cusco, sometimes called the twin City Of Machu Picchu, and then Machu Picchu. This increase is much less common and can explore on your own.
Vic Hanson is the founder of Adventure Cotahuasi Tours, which offers pre-planned and custom adventure travel tours in Cotahuasi Canyon and other areas of Peru.
http://www.adventurecotahuasi.com
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