tenth post (i survived the inka trail)

ok guys heres my updates from the other side of the inka trail.

um as to the hike. it was incredible. The scenery was beautiful and itturned out that instead of having a heart attack at the end of the groupi was actually the fastest walker. Apparantly this speed has been attributed to my stronglegs and goodendurance but sarah did say she was a little concern at the strain i wasplaceing on my body as i wasd walking up. On the sencond day which wasthe hardest i was the first to every check point and came in 2 hours and40 min earlier than recomended. On the third day me and another guycalled dan scailled a 5000 m mountain (the second day only got to 4300m) which was brutal but alot of fun and it had an incredible view (and of course both guys who climed up didnt have a camera on them T.T. The group was great fun to be with and seeing some of the other pyschos on the trails made us all glad that we were in a good group.

Um but there have been alot of issues with gap and it turned out thatwhen we got back from machu pichu (of which was incredible but we wereunable to walk up the mountain next to it called waynapichu (little mountain and machu pichu is big mountain) which was one of the problems) that our fearless tour leaders sam had quit (was obviously fired). So we have been sent another leader whose seems much better and last night spent an hour and a half going through all the problems we had had with gap and our tour leader. So we are being sent of form for insurance purposes, beingtreated to a free meal and hopfully being refunded some money.

but yeah ivebeen feeling sick and most of the group has been down with one thing or another (some alot worse than others). will be back soon. james have some time so will add about pyschos on trail.

pyscho 1; started swearing on spanish at unkown male. fliiped out andsmashed him over the head with her walking stick and the proceded to rundown the stairs suicidally while crying almost taking out a few from ourgroup.

pyscho 2; refused to carry her own bag and bluntly forced the porters tocarry it for her (the carry 25 kilos and run the track so as to arriveearly and be set up for the tourists as they arrive)

pyscho ´3; was tellingthe guides and proters that really there englishwasnt good enough and they should all work alot harder at it or somethinglike that.

pyscho 4; kept biching about wainting for other members of her group

pyscho 5; almost tripped up one of our members by putting her stickinfront of him so she could overtake. then once overtaken she slowed down(and it was single file so overtaking was pointless anyway)

pyscho 6; refused to admid she was from anywhere other than usa despitehaving the thickest accent ever.plus heaps of peoples who had two walking sticks blocked the whole pathwalked insanly slowly and then refused to let anyonew pass