The eve of the Inca Trail

Hola! So here we are in Cuzco, 3500m above sea level, on the eve of our Inca adventure. We arrived in Lima two days ago, Lima is a fairly nice city, or at least the district that we stayed in was nice. After a brief wander around some shops we found a cafe to watch the champions league in, and that was pretty much our day in Lima. That evening we met up with our group for the inca trail in the hotel, there are 4 canadians, 4 scando´s, 2 brummies, 2 other northeners and just the one southerner. It seems like a really good bunch, and after a few hours of chatting in the hotel we went out for a pizza for dinner. This morning we woke at 6am and flew out of lima to cuzco at 9:30, arriving at the hotel at midday. At this altitude although i feel fine and dandy walking about, carrying the bags upstairs made me a bit light headed. In the hotel we met our travel guide who will be leading us up the treck and learnt about our itinerary. After this we went for a wander into town and bought ourselves some thick peruvian jumpers for the cold Andean nights. And that brings you up to the present, i think this eve as it is my b-day tomorrow and a brummy girls birthday on the 3rd we are going to go out for some food and some drinks. Then get some good sleep in before our early start tomorrow, when we head to the sacred valley, and then on to our first day of walking the trail on the 2nd. It will be a week until we have access to the internet or mobile phone reception so we will be giong dark until then. Hope the weather is nice in blighty, its scorchio here.

Rich