Like true adventurers, we refused to use modern transportation and instead trek the 45 kms like the Incans did. Scientists know that rich ancient nobles would do this arduous 4 day hike as a pilgrimage to machu Pichu which was (according to painstaking research) "either a temple of holy women, a university or something else". There were also messengers who did this hike at a lightning speed in a couple of hours.
Our group looking fresh at the start at Km 82
The porters are nothing short of superhuman as they seem to enjoy sprinting up hills with 35 kgs attached to their backs and are still spritely enough to wake up at 4 in the morning to make breakfast. Not only would they run past us, but they had enough time to setup camp and cook food for us by the time we made it there!
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