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My great world trip is sadly drawing to an end, and barring any major mishaps I plan to be eating my Christmas turkey in Warwickshire this year. However I do have one last blog entry to write - this is a mammoth one and for that I apologise. If you do wish to continue, I suggest you first put the kettle on.
Actually this is not so much a blog entry, but extracts from a diary I have been keeping for the past 10 days. The last 10 days coinciding with very probably the most silly thing I have done since leaving the UK. Even more silly than planting trees in Oz, canyoning with dangerous snakes in the Indian jungle, heading for the South Asian seas with South African pirates, or even running away from angry bulls in Spain! What we decided to do was hike by ourselves (just Andy and I) through rural mountainous Peru, in some stupid effort to visit the mystical ‘lost’ Inca cities of Choquequirau and Machu Picchu unguided. You can do similar tours with local guides, mules to carry your gear and cooks to make your dinner, but it will cost you at least $500. We completed this mammoth hike for a fraction of that cost; but it did mean climbing a total of over 6000m (20,000ft) with all our gear on our backs. As I say stupid! Anyhow enough blabber; click here to read our story.
The last great adventure
Daves xxx
