Ilana and Netiva walk the Inka trail

to Machu-Pcchu, Peru, Aug. 2006

In the admiral club at OHare	Relaxed but excited	1st class:)	wow...from above
Coscu	Israeli restaurant	weavers	Ilana's favorite sculpture
		Do you have a smaller papaya?	bargaining for another penny under 1$
	Pisac market
llamas in the Sacred Valley	back to Cusco		Plaza from our restaurant's balcony
			traditional dress
	Our 1st lunch before starting the trail	Walking along the Urubamba river	Our 1st camp site
Our porters getting ready to leave for our 2nd day	Ilana with the guys	Netiva on the 2nd hardest day of the trail	Porters walk faster
Our waiter's setting up the silverware	Long line of walkers	Is Ilana hitching for a ride?	We made it to the highest point (4200 m above see level)
This was a climb of 1300 m up	then going down	Ilana brushing her teeth on the 3rd morning	Our happy crew
Their kitchen	Mata de Coca good for high altitude	Sylvia our guide and matheus our cook	Another mountain pass
The rain makes it all so slippery	Netiva and Sylvia	Black lake	Sylvia
lagoons area	Pretty rock	Sayaqmarka, another archeological site	We are too tired to climb up
Nice flowers	and springs	under bridges	Inca trail
Ilana resting her legs for 1 minute	but waiter calls to lunch	Inka's tunnel	Not too scary:)
3rd day was the hardest for us: 10 hours of walking, 1000 m drop down	Saying thanks to our crew on their last night with us	Small orchids on the trail	and big ones
Machu-Picchu is just below the clowds		We are tired, hungry, and proud at Mother earth stone	Machu-Picchu
We made it!	Netiva with the nice profile of the Forever young mountain behind her	Ilana stands over machu-Picchu	A bird in the crack of a real old Inca stone
Burial room at Machu-Picchu	New stones over old ones	Going through the site until Ilana's memory disk is full	nice Inca's stones below new ones
A llama mowing the lawn at machu-Picchu. What a sight! What a trip!