Dec 3-7
What in the hell was I thinking. Let me preface this by saying that my longest hike hike, prior to peru, was no more thatn 6 miles in one day, and I have never climed more than 1500 ft in elevation. This f-ing hike to the ¨City of Gold¨ was 43.4 miles long. I desended 8000 ft and the asended 8000 ft on the other side. I thought I was going to die-literally. The trail was so steep that you can´t walk down it. You have to kind of slide down. Are you shitting me? Oh yeah, we did this hike in 3 1/2 days. My feet are ruined. I have some serious work to do on them to get them back into shape.
Enough of the bad stuff. The hike was incredible. There were snow capped mountains in the background, we had local people prepare us rice and eggs. The city itself was beautiful. They say it will be bigger than macchu picchu, and more popular. It was the last refuge for the incas from the spanish. The craftsmanship is amazing, and some of the rocks they used have a lot of mica in them so they shine like gold from a distance. I can´t wait to post pictures. Rider, his grlfriend, his girlfriend´s sister, a horse boy and my self went on this crazy trip. We also went swimming in the ¨Talkative River.¨I would love to right more but I have to go and prepare for tomorrow, Macchu Picchu and leave for Puno-Lake Titticaca. I am going to try to stay on one of the one of the floating islañds. By the way I had to start a cycle of antibiotics because my foot is infected.