Salkantay walk to Machu Picchu. Got picked up at four in the morning. Fucking noisy canadians kept me awake.. Wasn't a good start with half an hour sleep and still could feel the altitude. Cuzco is at 3300m.. We drove for a couple of hours, had breacky and kept going. Loved my group straight away, Mark, KeV and Oggie from the UK and Mike, Tasha from Canada. Nice and small. :) The first day was gonna be the hardest, we walk up beside a glacier at 4600 m.. The views was the best I ever seen. I got really sick thou, the altitude hit me really hard. Got fever, dizzy, wobbling, puking.. Horrible. My guide tried to put me on the emergency hours but I refused. I was there to walk. In the end I collapsed so I HAD to go on the horse. We walk for the hole day, arriving after dark. I was exhausted and felt like shit. Went straight to the ice cold tent for a nights cold sleep. We were speaking next to the snow ! At least I was happy seeing snow again.. Woooop ! As the next coming days we went up early, between five and half six every day. Second day was better but till wasn't in the best shape. This day we started to decent, camping at 2500m.. Still cold ! The third day was one of the best, the vegetation change to more jungelish and I felt like a human again. Being up in the front, laughing and enjoying my ass off. Find a cool kind of zip line with a cage on at a high of at least hundred meters over the river. We all went out one at the time.. Freddy our guide had never even seen it. Fuck that was fun ! Played football at the camp sight. Heavy at that altitude.. The fourth day we climbed up a mountain called Llactapata at 2700m. Started at 1900m. Took us two and a half hour. A bit heavy but great. Started early so it wasn't to warm ( even thou it's winter.. ) amazing views when we got up there and we got the first glims of the Machu Picchu. The terraces ! Th We were all tired after seven hours of walking so skiped the last straigth and boring dirt road to Aguascalientes. Tooked the train, so we had time to enjoy the hot springs. Good need after four days of walking. Last day we went up at three in the morning, queuing for the bus to Machu Picchu. The is only 400 tickets each day walking up to Waynapicchu so we had to be there early. Thanks to Freddys big que jump we got the tickets,, ! Getting in to Machu Picchu was brilliant. Loved it. It's on a high of 2400m and in a really good shape. Can't believe they built that big inca city at that steep hight. We walk around, and went up Waynapicchu at half ten. ( after a short nap in the sun.. ) not every day you have a nap at the MP. Waynapicchu is only 400m up, nothing for us.. Haha. Really really steep, so one millimeters stepp wrong can cause your life. Sweating getting up there but the views over MP was sweet and just being able to walk around the ruins looking over the side of a mountain being able to fall down at any second gives you a got damn puls. I took my saved special bottle of rum that I've been saving since the el dorado distillery in guyanas with me on the trip. No one complained about that ! iii. Aguascalientes was very turistic but we all liked sitting down eating and playing cards waiting for the llate train to Take us back to Cuzco. The salkantay is a big recommendation from me. Loved it ! Such a cool walk, and MP itself is worth to see. One day I'm gonna do the real incatrail, arriving at the sungate. But that's a next trip taking plan.. That's all for now, do what you do it's just a matter of time. - You're jumping around my head. Keeping me busy. Now, in Cuzco, waiting for Nick and Lou. Hanging out drinking coffee and chilling. Partying to of course.. Starting my Spanish course tomorrow. Looking forward to it !