27.03.2008 Inka Trail - Day 2

We were woken up by tent service, served by Erick and the porters at late hour of 05h45... We had 40min to get our stuff together and to be at breakfast, of course we were late... We started the day by going up 500m to the first pass "The Dead Woman´s Pass" in 4200m. This took us a bit over an hour. From there we headed down about 600m to our lunch spot Pacaymayo, which was a very crowded camp site. In the afternoon it rained a few drops, but we climbed another 200m to get to Runkurakay (Circular Shape) which was an Inka messengers resting place (Tambo) and there it was "history time". After another 200m of going up, we got to the second pass, 4000m. And after another 500m down we reached our camp site for the night. Along the down part we stopped at Sayacmarca (Inaccessible Place), which was a site that was used to either to store agricultural products for MP or it was a military base. Unfortunately there is no confirmation of the fuction of this site, but different theories exist.

Our camp Chaquicocha (Dry Lake) was situated at the beginning of the Cloud Forest (the high altitude jungle, rainforest being the low altitude jungle). In the camp as usual, Tea Time and after some rhum our guide tought us how to smoke coca leaves. The dinner was excellent again and we learned that the chefs that work for Enigma go through a training that costs the company about 6000$, that explains!! Since the camp was situated at the limit of the Cloud Forest, we didn´t really see the sunset, just some fast moving clouds. Once the night came the frogs woke up. And they partied all night!!! Thanks again to "Boulquies"