Welcome to Leah & Katies online travel diary!!...

Over the next 7 weeks we hope you join us while we discover South America..

We're plannng on trekking the Inca Trail, Cycling Death Road, traversing Salt Plains, Volcanoes & Deserts and might even try fishing for Piranhas in the Amazon....

We can't wait to share our stories with you along the way and hope you can fill us in on what we missing out on at home.

Can't wait to hear from you all soon. Katie & Leah

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Off to do the Inca Trail..

Hi Guys

Greetings from Cusco.... We only have about 15min before our bus leaves so this is a quick update to say we're both still alive and having fun...

Tomorrow we embark on the our 4 day Inca Trek to Macchu Picchu.... Stayed up till past midnight packing last night and we're getting excited.  Our briefing last night told us to prepare for some seriously cold weather and some hard work on Day 2 as we climb to over 4500m in altitude..... Please keep your fingers crossed for us... climbing one set of stairs at this altitude leaves us all breathless so the mere  thought of the trek is pretty scary!.

Health update... Leah still has a bit of a cough, a sore knee and some minor concussion from whacking her head against a cement wall.... I still havent eaten a decent meal in about 4 /5 days without regretting it, but the cold is slowing going so whilst we're not in peak condition for the trek we were certainly worse a few days ago.

The last few days have been pretty fun - two of the people on our trip shared a birthday yesterday and we had our tour guides sister's hens night on the same day... ended up having our salsa dancing teacher do a strip show for us girls with his mate whilst the boys sat outside having a beer on the footpath, and then he took us all out to his salsa club dancing for the rest of the night to see in the birthday's..... Was awesome fun.. He was throwing us around the dancing floor and i swear everytime we thought our head would smash the floor but he knew his moves and  we learnt a few moves..

Anyway gotta run...

Wish us luck for the next 4 days and we'll hopefully check in after having completed the trek..

Katie and Leah..

3 comments:

  1. We are with you in spirit on your walk to such a majestic place. The salsa session would have removed a few kinks. Glad it is still an awesome trip. Hope you manage to squeeze in some sleep on your way to the trek. Take care.
    Love heaps. Mum & Dad xxxx
    p.s. Mothers probably should not read health updates.

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  2. Awesome photos guys! Thakns for letting me live my travel dreams through your journal! I know you will be the first ones to complete the Inca trail!

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  3. Hello Katie,

    We have been huffing and puffing alongside you over the past few days. Imagination can be a burden. Father's Day was a bad one...a large breakfast and Malaysian chicken for dinner. Kept energy levels where they needed to me. A game of taboo for social connection and dementia prevention, rain on an old in roof to lull us off to sleep. And thoughts of you blazing the Inca trail. Can't wait for your Father's Day report. Write soon and love and safety to you both.

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