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Day 1 Km 82

Album : South America : Peru : Inca Trail : Day 1 Km 82 (24 items)

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1) Ticket Booth

01/06/2000 9:15:32 AM

The tour usually start from KM 88, but if you go there on a private vehicle, KM 82 is the farthest you can get (the 6 KM walked was flat and the view was good).

DM- is waving at my camera, with her innocent smile, she was trying to deceive me that the Inca trail was a piece of cake.

2) The Starting Bridge

01/06/2000 9:32:04 AM

3) The Starting Bridge Group Photo

24/06/2000 6:41:14 PM

This is our group. We have 6 people but we got 6 helpers and one more guide, JL- who was taking the photos for us.
From right to left, SK-, LB-, CT-, DJ-, DM-, and the last one is me.

4) The Inca Trail

01/06/2000 9:40:00 AM

The Inca Trail is pretty well maintained. But I don't see too many direction signs in there (or maybe they were in Spanish).

5) Long Onward Journey

01/06/2000 11:28:02 AM

It's long but not very dangerous, some of the trails were beside high cliffs but generally they are safer than many trails I saw in Vancouver (but mentally they do look more dangerous).

6) Patallacta

01/06/2000 11:42:30 AM

This ruin was discovered by Bingham (the one who discovered Machu Picchu). It was thought to be a farming station and the soldiers who look after the farmers stay in the place where I took the picture from.

7) Inca Raccay

01/06/2000 11:53:14 AM

This is the place for the soldiers. They looked after the farmers in Patallacta. It doesn't look like regular Inca buildings, it was thought to be taken from some other tribes.

8) Inside Inca Raccay

01/06/2000 12:19:42 PM

9) Moving On

01/06/2000 12:43:54 PM

10) Ready For Lunch Not Really

01/06/2000 12:51:08 PM

We thought this was our lunch but not really, it belongs to someone else (but it's unguarded, we could take advantage of it.)

11) Our Lunch Table

01/06/2000 12:55:46 PM

This is really our lunch, the similarity of table clothing and chairs with the previous lunch set misguided us before.

12) Flowers Around Inca Trail

01/06/2000 2:05:22 PM

13) A Dead Mouse

01/06/2000 2:08:48 PM

A dead mouse. According to Inca believes, the spirit of this dead mouse is brought to the heaven by the condors and its spirit will live in the upper world before its body decayed. That's why people made mummies, just to keep the body fresh so the spirit can stay inside. If the body decayed, they will return to Pacha Mama (mother earth) and it won't be nice. That's also the reason why the last Inca Emperor rather joined the Catholic church so that he would die of hanging instead of burning.

14) Mountain Vonica

01/06/2000 2:14:54 PM

15) Huayllabamba

01/06/2000 2:55:30 PM

It started raining when we were in huayllabamba. JL- suggested that we can sacrifice the girls in our group to stop the rain. The idea was voted out.

16) A Briefing In The Rain

01/06/2000 3:04:52 PM

Take a right turn to the Inca trail after the bridge. Our porters were carrying the "gas tank" up the hill. JL- explained to us about the trail in the front.