Machu Picchu and the Jungle Trek!!! (Part 4 of South American trip)

Definitely one of the best and coolest experience in my life

So most of the people does the Inca Trail which cost 500$ and make you believe you have to book it months in advance, well Jay and I booked our Jungle Trek Trail for only 250$ the day before (which is super similar with the Inca but more, how to describe, “backpacker/extreme/Indiana Jones styles”)
The town where it start and everyone book their tours is called Cusco a beautiful town situated in the far east of Peru close to Bolivia elevated at 3,399m high (11000 feet).

Ready to bounce 6am sharp boum let’s to do this Jungle Tour. We passed through some nice little village and town like Chinchero, Urubamba, and Ollantaytambo which are all part of the Sacred Valley. The high point of our descent was Malaga Pass 4316 m. (14160ft.) the view and scenery was breath-taking, fog coming down the mountains, what a start so happy, so the first day is biking down the mountains through the sick valley, and it was raining wet and foggy but fuck it eh who cares, Jay and I decided to go crazy and we went last of our groups, pass everyone and lead far pass the main group. Has we biked down the fog disappeared and sweet hot sunshine came up and dried us.The view was pretty sick it was a majestic mountain and cloud forests which include a superb variety of flora and fauna. We went through few rivers and different path, I did fell pretty hard on my right hips but carried on, but later it was still bleeding and hiking for the next 3 days in the humid jungle was not the best for a wound, I still have the scar today and I smile every time I see it cos I wouldn’t change a thing I would still come back and do it again.

After few hours biking we drove to a small village and had a well-deserved lovely dinner.
Woke up the next day fresh, local breakfast and begin to hike, after few hours of an awesome hike we reached a village call Santa Rosa where you could see dozens of parrots, Calibri's and eagles.

The guide show us on the way Coca plant which in Peru and Bolivia is legal because it has medicinal values, we also saw tons of coffee plants, banana, mango, oranges…

We had a stop rest in a village called Pispitayuc where we relaxed, drunks some snake rum and play with weird animals.

We hiked through this incredible diverse of geography I never encounter, we pretty much walked 20k, the guides told us we almost at the final part of the day which is The Cocalmayo hot springs where you can enjoy the medicinal waters and massive pools of hot liquids from Earth BUT before that we had to cross a canyon where a super duper fast paced river was underneath, on a piece of wood, getting dragged on the other side by some locals lol. Jay and I volunteers to be first cos everyone in our group was so scatched out, back to back on a piece of wood, underneath death, welcome to the adrenaline world ouwouw. After everyone in one piece on the other side we enjoyed the hot springs so much what a cool and reward place. Got to a small hostels in a tiny local village where we got drunk on Pisco Sour (traditional Peruvian drink)

Next day we hiked the all-day again and saw on the way waterfalls, local coffee and coca plantations, what an amazing views and scenery it was just amazing. Arrived in Aguas Calientes the nearest town to Machu Picchu where people stay or skip the treks to get there. A sweet nice little town at the bottom of the mountain of the famous ruins.

We woke up super early in the morning like freaking 4am to finally visit Machu Picchu. The hike was wet but great took roughly half hour to 45min. few hundred meters to the entrance and voila here we are.
Lucky us we were there for sunrise, a bit foggy for the first few hours but then the fog disappeared,

we got a guided tour of the famous ruins for few hours talking about the cultures, the rituals, the fucked up sacrifices. You can feel the energy around you, feeling deep down that this place had some sort of “magic” After the tour guided and full of knowledge we were free to explore the ruins. We obviously stayed and hanged out all day up there, just taking all in, being at Machu Picchu, there is no words to describes how beautiful is this places. The funny part of it is hundreds of Lama and Alpaca eating grass just chilling, Jay and I tried to take close pics. After 3 crazy amazing hard days of biking and hiking through the jungles and mountains of Peru, the final “the piece the resistances motherfuckers” was soooo worth it. Definitely one of the coolest experience in my life.

Stay tune for part 5 and final chapter of South American trip BOLIVIA!!!!