Nov 2 Inca Trail Day 3

And once again I manage to poison Arzu with my deodorant. :) Today we will have a warm shower in the afternoon. We don't have much to walk today, but the path includes 3000 steps down. That will be good for our leg muscles.

While we are having breakfast, it starts to rain :( and except for the fact that we didn't buy the ponchos for no reason, this is no good. Everybody takes time to waterproof before we start walking. We look like a moving rainbow in all the colors we have. :) Going down the steps without slipping is a challenge, but we all manage and after a couple of hours the rain has stopped and we take the ponchos off.  Mine is wet from the inside as well, which is no fun since I took the one that was a little more expensive to avoid exactly that. It is too bad that we don't see anything. This part of the Inka Trail is supposed to be beautiful. Before we make it to the campground we stop at another beautiful and very steep Inka site. It is amazing how they could be built like this!

We did it... Now we are only a 5km walk from Machu Picchu.

We arrive at the campsite for lunch and also for the rest of the day... Before my body even cools down I am going to have a shower. Against what everybody writes on the internet, the showers are cold here as well. The building had to be shut down and so I have to be fast. 

Although I am almost freezing to death in there, I manage to wash my hair and pour water and soap all over my body, and it feels so good after. :) Everybody is jealous of my clean hair... 

After lunch where we almost ruin the table we all have some rest and Arzu tells me the funny story where Israel offers her a foot massage she resists. Carlos then asks from the next tent if he can have it instead, but Israel refuses. :)

At 4pm - before the other groups even make it to the campsite - we go to a nearby Inka Site which is equally impressive as the other one and Ruben explains more about the Inkas. Then we explore on our own and I have to show Carlos the way out because he is lost. :)

Arzu stayed back to read and relax and when I come back she gives me a massage for my troubled shoulder. So here I am half naked in a tent, rain dribbeling on the tent skin, being massaged by my friend... This could be the beginning of a good story, but it's not, don't worry :)

At Happy Hour we get 2 cakes and Phil manages to cut 13 pieces out of one of them. 

This is the last night for all of us and we say good bye to the porters since they will go straight to the trainstation tomorrow morning without a stop at Machu Picchu.

Carlitos is very sweet to organize a hot water bottle for me so I can fall asleep with warm feet. Wake up is at 3am!