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| So this was the second half of day 2 trekking...complete jungle like environment |
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| This is the beautiful lagoon we hiked to on day 1 where I felt like passing out! but the view was totally worth it! |
Hey yall!! So its been like 2 weeks since my last entry and I must say I totally miss writing mindlessly in these things! Okay so where to start...basically after spending a few days in Cuzco being the mystery guest, I finally booked my trek to machu Picchu with a company called vertigo and not gonna lie the tour guide and just the tour itself was subpar. I paid $250 USD which is pretty decent considering I was thinking I had to cough up like $500 so I was happy with the price. The trek itself was so fricken amazing. The experience of living in the wilderness for 4 days was just so refreshing and totally needed on my end. So the first day you get pciked up around 530am and you drive for a few hrs and meet at this stop called challacancha which is at 3600m and we begin the trek there. It wasn't bad...maybe like in total 3 hrs of uphill and flat. trekking. We arrive to soraypampa which is our first camp base. After setting up tents we all hike to a lagoon called humantay lake and stupid me I didn't bring my bloody camera and it ended up being like the most beautiful lake with this amazing grand mountain backdrop!! Luckily my group members were kind enough to snap some pics. The trek to this lagoon was supposed to be lke a taste for the next days trek and fuck me it was soooo hard!! The hill wasn't even that steep but I think because of the altitude or something jt was just leaving me completely breathless. So the first night was freezing and it actually ended up raining in the night and some of my things got wet which sucked cause half the group were set up under these basic shelter things and none of their stuff got wet. So we started hiking super early...maybe 7am? I forget but it was all uphill for the first 4 hrs and omg I was dying...I kept thinking to myself why am I doing this to my body?!!! And let alone why am I paying to do this?!! But I couldn't get too upset cause the landscape
Was just stellar and something ive never witnessed before! But then it starts to rain and it is like wicked ass cold...so I'm freezing my ass off and finally we get to the sulkantay mountain at 4630m and I can't see a single thing!! It's like cloudy and misty and I am so sad cause I know there's a stunning mountain behind all this crap and I just want to see it with all my being!! But I didn't have the chance to sulk too much cause the guides were pressing us onwards.. We then start our decent passing huayracmachay and finally setting camp at chaullay. I was so happy when I got there cause I knew the hardest part was over!! And it could only be smooth sailing from there!! So the start of day 3 we wake early, I had the. Best sleep ever cause we had our tents under these roofs that were somewhat shelter like...we were still exposed but we had a roof over our tents! We start trekking again but it wasn't nearly as long or hard as the day before and we end up arriving to the end of the trek path where we were met by vans and they took us to our next camp site. Here is where I basically got eaten alive by whatever the heck bugs were flying around and ughhh because we were essentially in like jungle terrain, it was hot and humid and just icky. We set up tents and head to the hot springs where again we got eaten alive.. Not cool. Day 4. I had to share my tent with this Italian guy who I had been sharing a tent with since day 1 and if was all done up until that point cause we always slept in a 2 person tent but last night we shared a one person tent and omg I had the worst sleep of my life...not only were we so fight and squished in there...the air was gross and I couldn't open the tents cause of the damn bugs so it was just not a fun night. So day 4 we start our trek from Santa Teresa and head to hidroelectrica. It was an easy trek that day..mostly flat and j ended up having such a great conversation with this English girl named Lauren and her and her bf were travelling the world for a yr and I couldn't help but envy and admire that at the same time.. She then told me about her siblings and how one sister is living in Hong Kong and she has a brother and sister in law working in Thailand teaching English and just so happy.. It sounded like she definitely came from a family where its normal to live abroad and go against the grain. Anyway after chatting with her it made me realise that I don't have to live the conventional life that everyone lives.. it's possible to go against the norm and just do what YOU wanna DO! I've always known this but its so hard for me to do because I'm so scared of going against what majority of people are doing :( anyway after trekking to aquas calientes we make our way to our hotels and meet up for dinner later on. At dinner our guide is not really hanging out with us but rather sitting at the bar and at that point alot of us had a problem with him. The whole trek he seemed to really not respect that everyone treks at a different pace and would get super annoyed if there were some slower trekkers. Anyway we ended up writing some bad reviews and boy did that and up biting us in the ass the next morning. So we meet on day 5 at 430 am and I walk in on him basically saying that we got him fired and that he wouldn't be taking us on the trek to MP! luckily I think our lack of enthusiasm for his ass like behavior made him reconsider and he told us he would meet us at the top. Holly mother going up those steps to MP was soooo hard!!! I was sweating buckets and was just telling myself that every step I take I am that much closer and finally I made it to the top! I felt soioo good!!! I was like on fire!! Bring on machu Picchu bitche$!!!! Anyways we get separated into an English and Spanish speaking group but unfortunately our guide Freddie was completely intoxicated. Long story short we were abandoned at MP and left to explore it ourselves. I climbed machu Picchu mountain which omg took like every fibre and ATP in my body to do! again as I was hiking o kept asking myself...why? Why why why?!!!! This English dude named Josh had trekked at the same time and was really fast and the only thing keeping me going at times was that I knew he was there and waiting for our group members to come! Once I got to the top again I just felt so amazingly light and that I could literally do anything in the world that I wanted!! It was an amazing feeling and only can be experienced when you push your self to the absolute limit, and this was it for me! Anyways I ended up eating lunch there...big mistake!! I got a hotdog and pop for 30 soles which is $10 USD. The most expensive meal I've eaten since my travels! Anywho I ended up heading back to aguas caliente and had like so much time to kill that I ended up walking in the local markets and eating this amazing dinner that consisted of rice, beef, fried banana, fries etx! It was so cool sitting in front of this little stall on this dirty alley way and just eating with the locals! Anywho so I took the 950 train back and got in around 130 back to Cusco.
Was just stellar and something ive never witnessed before! But then it starts to rain and it is like wicked ass cold...so I'm freezing my ass off and finally we get to the sulkantay mountain at 4630m and I can't see a single thing!! It's like cloudy and misty and I am so sad cause I know there's a stunning mountain behind all this crap and I just want to see it with all my being!! But I didn't have the chance to sulk too much cause the guides were pressing us onwards.. We then start our decent passing huayracmachay and finally setting camp at chaullay. I was so happy when I got there cause I knew the hardest part was over!! And it could only be smooth sailing from there!! So the start of day 3 we wake early, I had the. Best sleep ever cause we had our tents under these roofs that were somewhat shelter like...we were still exposed but we had a roof over our tents! We start trekking again but it wasn't nearly as long or hard as the day before and we end up arriving to the end of the trek path where we were met by vans and they took us to our next camp site. Here is where I basically got eaten alive by whatever the heck bugs were flying around and ughhh because we were essentially in like jungle terrain, it was hot and humid and just icky. We set up tents and head to the hot springs where again we got eaten alive.. Not cool. Day 4. I had to share my tent with this Italian guy who I had been sharing a tent with since day 1 and if was all done up until that point cause we always slept in a 2 person tent but last night we shared a one person tent and omg I had the worst sleep of my life...not only were we so fight and squished in there...the air was gross and I couldn't open the tents cause of the damn bugs so it was just not a fun night. So day 4 we start our trek from Santa Teresa and head to hidroelectrica. It was an easy trek that day..mostly flat and j ended up having such a great conversation with this English girl named Lauren and her and her bf were travelling the world for a yr and I couldn't help but envy and admire that at the same time.. She then told me about her siblings and how one sister is living in Hong Kong and she has a brother and sister in law working in Thailand teaching English and just so happy.. It sounded like she definitely came from a family where its normal to live abroad and go against the grain. Anyway after chatting with her it made me realise that I don't have to live the conventional life that everyone lives.. it's possible to go against the norm and just do what YOU wanna DO! I've always known this but its so hard for me to do because I'm so scared of going against what majority of people are doing :( anyway after trekking to aquas calientes we make our way to our hotels and meet up for dinner later on. At dinner our guide is not really hanging out with us but rather sitting at the bar and at that point alot of us had a problem with him. The whole trek he seemed to really not respect that everyone treks at a different pace and would get super annoyed if there were some slower trekkers. Anyway we ended up writing some bad reviews and boy did that and up biting us in the ass the next morning. So we meet on day 5 at 430 am and I walk in on him basically saying that we got him fired and that he wouldn't be taking us on the trek to MP! luckily I think our lack of enthusiasm for his ass like behavior made him reconsider and he told us he would meet us at the top. Holly mother going up those steps to MP was soooo hard!!! I was sweating buckets and was just telling myself that every step I take I am that much closer and finally I made it to the top! I felt soioo good!!! I was like on fire!! Bring on machu Picchu bitche$!!!! Anyways we get separated into an English and Spanish speaking group but unfortunately our guide Freddie was completely intoxicated. Long story short we were abandoned at MP and left to explore it ourselves. I climbed machu Picchu mountain which omg took like every fibre and ATP in my body to do! again as I was hiking o kept asking myself...why? Why why why?!!!! This English dude named Josh had trekked at the same time and was really fast and the only thing keeping me going at times was that I knew he was there and waiting for our group members to come! Once I got to the top again I just felt so amazingly light and that I could literally do anything in the world that I wanted!! It was an amazing feeling and only can be experienced when you push your self to the absolute limit, and this was it for me! Anyways I ended up eating lunch there...big mistake!! I got a hotdog and pop for 30 soles which is $10 USD. The most expensive meal I've eaten since my travels! Anywho I ended up heading back to aguas caliente and had like so much time to kill that I ended up walking in the local markets and eating this amazing dinner that consisted of rice, beef, fried banana, fries etx! It was so cool sitting in front of this little stall on this dirty alley way and just eating with the locals! Anywho so I took the 950 train back and got in around 130 back to Cusco.
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