Machu Picchu

Sam and I arrived to wild rover around 8, there was a table quiz starting at 9, so we joined a team with an Irish couple from Dublin. We went on to win the quiz on a dice roll as the scores were tied. We won jäger bombs! We got up the next day and headed for a travel agents to hopefully book some sort of a trip to Machu Picchu. We ended up getting a great trip 4 days 3 nights on an Inca jungle trek. We were picked up the next day at 5.30 from the hostel, took a bus for about an hour and stopped for breakfast, another hour on the bus, we were high up Abra Malaga Mountain, we mountain biked for 3 hours to Huamanmarka, where we had lunch and jumped back into the bus for an hour to Santa Maria, where we went white water rafting, it was great fun, the rapids weren't super crazy but we were a boat full of beginners and myself and Sam did 90% of the paddling. We were then driven on a dirt road to the bottom  of a very steep mountain which we had to hike with all our bags for an hour to our Ecological Conde House, the walk was super steep and exhausting in the pitch black, Sam and I didn't think torches were essential. After breakfast around 8 Steven our local tour guide talked to us for an hour about local traditions and the importance of Machu Picchu. We then hiked for 7 hours stopping in a tiny mountain village for lunch. The reward at the end of the hike was a beer and 2 hours in the hot springs.  We had hiked to a small town called Santa Teresa, we went to the  local nightclub as a big group
                                        

The next morning we went zip lining, the zip lining ran across the valley so the views were incredible. The tour guides made me a flag pole out of a fallen tree and grass. We hiked along the train tracks for the last two hours and arrived at Machu Picchu town. To climb Machu Picchu we had to get up at 4am and again walk in the dark to que up to climb Machu Picchu. It took us just over an hour to hike to Machu Picchu where again we had to que but only for about 20 minutes. We got a tour around the grounds, went and saw an inca bridge and then climbed Montana mountain which took over an hour and was exhausting but the views were incredible, birds eye view of Machu Picchu. Absolutely exhausted we decided to get a bus back to the hostel. The trek was incredible, have some fantastic memories but unfortunately the go pro broke and ended up halfway down the mountain never to be found. I'm going to stay in cusco for a few weeks working in a hostel bar 'the wild rover'