Cusco Peru Vlog — Hike To Machu Picchu

Welcome back to Peru and episode 2 of our month-long adventures around South America. We're taking you along on our biggest trip in years with G Adventures exploring four different countries but as for today there's a lot going on in this one both good, I'm actually in awe and it takes a lot for people from New Zealand, and bad. Throw a hand up if you're okay my love. We're hiking towards the main event Machu Picchu on the Laris Track which is normally a three to five day mission but we're going to show you the two day highlights and considering we're in the middle of absolutely nowhere, that's so crazy, you won't believe how amazing the hospitality is. We've also picked up a new squad member to show us the secret local ways. But is it true what they say about the altitude in Peru and how will hiking at 4,200 meters and sleeping at 3,800 be on our bodies? Is it an adventure to start eh? I feel like we're on a different planet, this is so foreign to us, just like having the meals right there ready to take our bags, this is where we're going to have breakfast this morning. I don't know, I don't know what else to tell you. So we've been driving for about two hours out through the wilderness we've been seeing They are our porters my friend, they are going to come and carry our stuff, the daffodils. So we walk over there, that's the place where we are going to have breakfast, right there man. Let's go, let's have fun. He's in a good mood, let's hope we all are by the end of the day. So yeah we've been driving for about two hours, we're seeing some real local stuff. I haven't actually filmed too much, I've been trying not to and for the purpose being that this walk that we're doing is as well known as being a little bit more off the beaten path in the sense that it still actually walks through these these old Inca trails that go through local villages much like this. We've got a chicken up in the back, puppy running alongside. When people say there's llamas here, there's hundreds of thousands of llamas. It's like the sheep back home but llamas. Exactly, anyways this is breakfast, I'm excited to see what the hell this is going to look like. So cute. Got some traditional looking beach chairs. Those are sick. They're actual covers on like camp chairs. We've got napkins. What's going on here, we've got coffee over here and this looks like the pottery maybe from where we were yesterday. Oh so they've got some coca tea. I think I'm gonna get into somewhere. Make you friends, I said. I am. They're showing me the good spots. Oh sick. This is what happens when you bring a drone to a village I suppose. And then the young fella here is about to have a fly in a second. Is he? Oh good stuff. It works. Are you hungry? Yes. Starving. Muchos hungry. Muchos hungry. Mucho hambre. Is that how you say it? What have we got? Oh yogurt. Yogurt, cereal. Okay. Should we just have them shared one bit? Yeah brilliant. Thank you. This is awesome. It's amazing. Breakfast down, time to hike. Time to hike. So what we are gonna do now is we are gonna start hiking like a little bit where those rocks are. We are gonna turn on the left and we are gonna go to the other side and we are gonna go down to the community of Kunkani. Okay. So it's gonna be a mad adventure and things have just taken a bit of a turn for positive making even more of an adventure just in terms of the trek we're doing. Yeah so there's a kid from the village. His name is Jairo. Jairo. Jairo. Jairo. Jairo. Jairo. Jairo. Arriving to the campsite, he's gonna take us to a different walk, to an extra walk, and he's gonna show us more about his land. Jairo's dad is actually a porter so he works with G Adventures. So I couldn't tell you where we're going but oh my god I'm out of breath already. That's it. But it should be fun. That's your one chat for the day. That's it I'm out. This is gonna be so good. We've been walking for a couple of hours now and we have seen llamas, we've seen docks, we've seen bridges, we've seen lakes, we've seen incredible mountains. I'm actually in awe and it takes a lot for people from New Zealand to look at a hike and go you know what that's a good hike. This is amazing. Not just New Zealand though we've like we said we've got we've got European mountain goats with us. True. We've got North American adventurers. We've got everything and they're all. Every bridge we go over just gets better and better. Wow come on. So we can be up here at what are we three thousand? Four thousand. Four thousand. 4141. Wow. Pretty high. 4100. That's close. That's crazy. I mean you make sense when you look around. We're up here with the clouds almost. And we've just got this lake. I want to tell you a really fun story that Huber was just telling me. Okay. There's a house down there. We're at this altitude and we're what four hours into this hike maybe. They have alpacas and llamas. The concrete formations the rock formations you see is where they store them. They obviously they are farmed so they do need to eat to consume those but they also weave. Every Saturday they hike back to the market where we were. They sell their llama which or alpaca which have now made jerky in various forms. Yeah. They sell their weaving and then with that money they buy from other people at the market that live somewhere else out here. They have other goods that they need and then they all come back. Oh my gosh. Amazing. So special. I love it. So obviously back in the day people when gold and silver had no real tangible value. You couldn't eat it. Yeah you couldn't eat it. Yeah they used to. They would trade some alpaca jerky for maybe something else that they need for warmth or something but obviously currency is the middleman these days but anyway cool little tidbit. Tristan how are you feeling? I know I feel mixed emotions. I feel oh yeah I just well I just stopped finally like after going up the incline and the it's like my body like my legs everything's like let's go but my lungs and my head are like no no no take your time. I can't relax. Yeah but I mean you just do it. It's amazing what you do if you put your mind to something you can do it so. I will give you a chance. Yeah I love it. Okay rub it. Yeah rub it and then clap it. In my face yeah. Don't clap it in your face. And then breathe it in. Whoa that goes straight through you. I felt it here. Yeah. I felt it like in my diaper. Did you feel like a house? Like three times. Three times. It's cool aye. It actually does make a difference. It feels nice. Jane's left me with the camera. It is very difficult to carry heavy things at this altitude so this is a message for you Danger. Thanks for nothing. Oh I literally can't even see him now. He's gone. I really wish you could be here to see this in person because this is one of those situations where it's not doing it justice guys. I'm sorry. It's not. This is a wide-angle lens so hopefully I'm sort of bringing you along a little bit but we're on the way down at the moment. I wouldn't be surprised actually if camp is down there somewhere but we're trying to take those moments actually stop and appreciate it and actually take it in and not have cameras up at all times and like just listen, observe, check it all out. This is definitely one to remember. Okay go. Is it a video? Yeah go. It's a video everyone. Come on let's go. Wow you're so adventurous. Oh my gosh. We are really like, we've got a village right here which is cool. We're basically down, we've reached the bottom of the valley. We've said hello to a couple of locals and I think we must be heading down through here. Okay I don't think you've looked up yet, don't do it yet. I'm going to come around this way. Now look my way and above my head. Oh my gosh no. Yep I like that. Yep we like a bit of that. Have you guys both seen it already? I think so. Yeah. Yeah. We've been walking towards it for like an hour. But not that much. That's the best view of it. Oh the clouds come in right now of course but. We've made it to our campsite. Not sure like, I can see these little orange dome tents. I'm not sure what the rest of the facilities look like but what a place to camp. Like this is the kind of campsite you can expect on a trip like this and this scenery. Like how many times I've said but like we're gonna sleep here. What? Yes. What? Yes. Here we go we've got our own g-tent. Oh there's there's the duffel bag so that goes to show how these arrive. This is, so we've got some kind of a toilet block kitchen-y situation going on. Oh we've got a towelette. Oh we got the towelette and. This is like a five-star hotel. Cheers. Is she working or is she? She's scared of the drone. Oh. No no no no no you're fine you're fine. She's okay. Who is that? Okay so we've got the tents that we're gonna eat in. We've got the tents that we're gonna sleep in. Apparently those are the doubles down there so we'll show you those in a minute. We've got the kitchen where everything is cooked. This is where we're gonna shower. This is where we're gonna, well you kind of know what we're gonna do in there. And this is where they grow their own produce. This is a little taste of food. Mushroom ceviche. And a chicken noodle soup. Okay Stacey's taking a little bit of a little bit of a turn. She's got a headache so throw her hand up if you're okay my love. There it is. So she's taking a bit of a rest but I wanted to show you the rain's kicked in so everybody's come back to the tent so I just want to show you how good this setup is. So we've got some hot water here. We've got some products here. Hot drinks. Got a hot water bottle. And now look at this. Sorry my love I'm gonna dig around underneath you. We've got a pillow. Incredible sleeping bag. And then this is almost, it looks maybe like it's some kind of blow up. I'm not sure. And then we're also on top of this so you're not sleeping on the ground. There's lots of space. Heaps of rooms for bags. And it is all good. We picked a spa here. We've got the running river right there and then you can see she's pretty quiet out here. A few people up there having a drink and this is kind of us. Unfortunately this is where things took a turn for me. I'd hiked all day feeling really nauseous with a terrible headache but it was manageable. Sleeping at 3,800 meters was taxing though so I needed a cheeky tank of oxygen for dinner. Varying degrees of altitude sickness isn't all that uncommon especially when hiking and the G-Adventures guides were so amazing about things even offering to drive me down to sleep at a lower altitude. But I wanted to complete the hike myself and push through. Feeling better? Oh here we go. Now we are gonna go downhill so you will recover my friend. Gracias. Okay this is coffee and this is coffee. Just in a while the guys are gonna leave us with some hot water here. Okay thank you. I loved it. You've still had a headache. Stacey hasn't been too flash but the team here have been so good. Yeah everyone's been really lovely. We just woke up this morning with the sounds of the birds, light trickle of rain, hopefully that's not a thing we're going to stick with, and the sound of the running river. Morning everybody. Morning. What are we starting with? Eggy bread. We've just discovered that in the UK it's eggy bread. What is it? What are we trying to say? It's French toast. Okay three, two, one, everybody say cheese. Collection of local families here that are just selling some of their wares. Any alpaca? What'd you go for? Look at these. Alpaca socks. They're so cool. They're so good. I wish you could feel them. They're so soft. 20 soles. Amazing. And finished the hike, I did. So happy I pushed through, made some new friends and then on to lunch. Which was at Pawa restaurant, a community restaurant run by local people and if you watched our first Peru video, the last vlog, you'll know all about the amazing things that G Adventures and Planeterra are doing for communities. While this is one of the most successful, if not the most successful projects ever. Wow it is so much bigger than I thought. And what a setting. Look at the, whoa they're enormous. The ingredients either grow on on-site or sourced from local farmers. All proceeds go on to more development and oh my gosh the food was unbelievable. I'm not sure if it's just because everyone was excited about the food as us, but this turned into a pretty wild party. Picked off probably the number two thing to do in Peru. Next time we're going to tick off the number one and it's everything we hoped it would be. See you then.