Round the world with Michaela and Tom

The day is nearly here...19th October 2010 and we are going to be heading off on our travels round the world!! It seems like we have been saving and planning forever and the day is finally getting close.

We start of in S.America (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay) then head to Australia, South East Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam) then China, Japan and India wohoooooooooooo!!!!

We are going to try and keep a blog of stuff we get up to and pics off course - we will see how internet access goes and how much time we get to write on it!!

YOU CAN CLICK ON EACH PICTURE TO MAKE IT BIGGER AND YOU CAN COMMENT BELOW EACH POST - A FEW PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING!!





Sunday, 2 January 2011

MACHU PICCHU and Wayna Picchu!!!


After we had got our stamps in our passports for making it to the end of the trail our guide, Yamiel give us a tour of Machu Picchu. The site is huge and it is just so hard to imagine how they could have made all these structures ...yrs ago!! The views were breathtaking and magical.



As we strolled around Machu Picchu enjoying the sunshine and the stunning views we were constantly in the shadow of  Wayna Picchu. Lots of people had recommended that if we had any energy left that we should climb this mountain for its spectacular views of Machu Picchu - AS IF WE HAD ANY ENERGY LEFT!!! I mean who wants to climb ANOTHER few 1000 steps after 3 days of trekking just to get there!!!

...TOM!!!! He managed to convince 4 of us (for me I couldnt let him go home bragging that he had done it and I hadn't!!) from a group of about 25 to climb it with him and it was TORTURE!!! But well worth it - infact the highlight of the trek once we got to the top!! The views were outstanding and it really gave you a sense of just how big Machu Picchu is and just how unbelievable it is that it could have been built by the Inca's 100's of years ago without any of the technology that we have today!!






The four of us about half way up Wayna Picchu...it was such a steep trek up and my legs were killing before I even started!!





...some of the cliff edges on the way up were pretty hairy!!






All of us chilling out at the top...absolutely shattered!!!




Me taking in the view over the cliff at the top of Wayna Picchu..





Me and Tom at the top of Wayna Picchu...amazing view of Machu Picchu and the highlight of the trek!!


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