We’ve had one or two of our Explorers make it to Machu Picchu and it is now the turn of Young Fit and Adventurous Jane.

The struggle of an early start, we’re talking 4:30am (I mean that’s still night, right?), was eased by cheering porters as Jane arrived at the bus that would take her on to the trek. In fact it seems the porters made something of an impression, especially the chef,

“The chef was especially amazing […], an average meal was: starter, soup, selection of some six to eight regional dishes presented buffet style, and dessert. The last day we even had sculptures of birds made out of vegetables. And this was all from ingredients carried up and down hills for four days.”

Over those 4 days Jane made it through Dead Woman’s Pass, drank a whole lot of coca tea, enjoyed spectacular moonlight and crowned all this with Machu Picchu itself,

“It was every bit as beautiful as it’s rumoured to be and we chilled out at the top of the hill for a while before descending down to the lost city. It is really high up, perched at the top of this hill, even though we were even higher up. We could even see little clouds drifting below us which was kind of cool.”