Semi-Charmed Life

3rd day of the hike.

It was always interesting to see the different changes in the environment. Some places you'll notice that the leaves are very small and other areas you'll notice gigantic leaves. This particular picture is a view of the bamboo forests that we passed through intermittently.

Another site we reached on our third day.

It's all pretty much a blur now but I think this was on our 3rd day as well. I believe this was the Incan site that we checked out after we ate lunch. We arrived at our final camp site around 11am and after we ate our lunch and rested up, we convened again to head to this Incan site that was located 5-10 minutes away from our camp site.

Lots of interesting things along the trails.

This is our 4th day, when we finally arrived in Machu Picchu. That's our cheesy victory pose. I didn't take any photos on the way to our hike here because on our final night, we had to wake up at 3:30am. We packed all our things well before dawn and starting making way to Machu Picchu a little before 5. It was roughly another 2 hours before we were able to see Machu Picchu.

That's my defeated look. I think I was just weary at this point from the trip. The 4th day's hike was very easy, but waking up so early, not showering for all that time and the major lack of any bowel movements really took a lot out of me. When I am in hostile territory my body just shuts down and refuses to allow itself to shit in places like those public squatting outhouses they have near the campsites.

Here we've already entered the Machu Picchu site and are getting our usual lesson from Alex. This was one of the few lessons where I just completely zoned out and did not listen at all. I was too tired to care at this point. I wanted to just zone out and snap some pictures. Danny (in orange) fell asleep during the whole thing.

We're getting another lesson in another area of Machu Picchu.

The Thames family.

And that was pretty much of the whole hike in a nutshell.