Ray shares about hiking the Incan Trail, and a train ride through the Andes, as well as his life in Mexico City, and growing up internationally.
- Cusco
- In the mts. of Peru - 8,000 ft
- 2 weeks to acclimate to altitude
- Coffee & chocolate making classes
- Incan Trail 10,000 ft
- Only 100 people allowed on the trail per day
- A 4 day trail
- Usually reserve 6 months in advance
- $1000 per person to do the hike
- Day 1
- 3 hr drive to Sacred Valley where the trail starts
- Mostly flat for about 5 hours, then the last 30 minutes is steep
- Day 2
- From 10,000 ft to 14,000 ft for 4 straight hours
- The views are amazing
- Wild llamas running up the hills
- Waterfalls
- The path the Incans would take to get to Machu Picchu
- Secret path
- Paths through other forts, ruins (can’t be seen from above)
- ½ degree different terrace to grow different crops
- From jungle to pine forest
- Looked like a river of clouds moving through the Andes mountains
- Machu Picchu
- With no one else there, you watch the sunrise, then you get an hour with only the 100 people who hiked it with you
- Train at the end Agua Calientes
- Silent Meditation Retreat
- Lake Titicaca
- Train from Cusco to Titicaca
- Only 2 people on this train because it was a day the train usually didn’t run that day
- Quinoto - risotto with quinoa
- 2 bands on the train, the 2nd band was awful
- Half way through the trip they stop and local people set up a market to sell to the people on the train
Wish You Were Here
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Ray: Sima de las Cotorras, Chiapas, Mexico
Ryan: Deception Pass, Whidbey Island, WA
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