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This pic isn't great, but it does the job. The porters would run ahead and set up our meal tent, so we always had our meals here. The cooking was actaully pretty good too.
Pampaccahuana is not just a location, it is very special of the kind. During school year kids from all the vicinity walk every day to this small building - the school. It is not specifically primary, or junior, or high school. Just the school. The class is 10-15 pupils of all ages. The teacher is one for all of them. He travels once a week to the school from Cusco, spends 4 nights here and leaves back to Cusco for weekend. For some pupils it takes hours to walk just one way from their house to the school.
Me at the signpost for Dead Woman's pass - if you can't read the writing it says the elevation is 4,215 meters (or about 13,828 feet for the Americans out there). A couple people had to take oxygen treatment to actually catch their breath up here.
Looking back at the cloud covered Mount Veronica (18,641ft, 5,682m) - I kept hoping the clouds would clear and I would get that perfect shot but this was about the best I could do. It really was beautiful, though - and at least it wasn't raining anymore!
The trail rises pretty quickly for awhile here - I thought this part was hard... until Day 2.
Inca Trail Day 1