The Inca Trail Briefing

We had a good nights sleep and got up to go to our Inca Trail briefing at noon.  We met the rest of our group (very Intl) and our guides.  We got all the logistics.  Overall we are managing the altitude a lot better today and expect it should be fine by tomorrow.

We are picked up by the outfit (Andean Inca Adventures) at 6 am and then bussed three hours to the head of the trail.  We will be descending in altitude to get to the trail head.  Our first day will be taking us only a little ways back up in altitude.  The next day will be an all out climb to reach the top most altitude of 13,000 ft.  It is by far the toughest climb of the whole trip.  By the third day we begin a slight descent to Machu Pichu.  

We get there on the fourth day but dont enter the site until the next morning.  It will be bright and early again but it will be worth it as we will get a guided tour and be the first in the park.  Just as we are breaking up to explore on our own we will the rest of the tourists arrive by train.  

We are very excited and felt a little better about it after the briefing. We have some great guides.  We leave tomorrow morning and we will be camping all along the way for the first three nights.  So we will have no access to technology to post.  No worries as we return Thursday but probably wont post until friday about our experience.  So don't worry.