Elad’s blog

Pink dolphins jumping out of yellow rivers. Glowing worms reflect their supernatural green light in the water of underground lakes. Deadly trees eating birds. Kangaroos that hop on canopies. Condors eyeing from zero distance. Termite mounds rise 8 meters over desert flats. Birds of Paradise making machine-gun noises in the woods. Orcas swimming in freezing waters.

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I entered my parent’s house on Passover’s eve, a few minuts before the traditional dinner, 342 days after leaving it, on a perfect surprise.

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The tour to the Colca Canyon, as it turned out, was an old-age style guided bus tour and not a walking trek of a sort; Though the participants were young travelers, this tour is easily suitable for much older people, and can be attended by them as well - you hardly get off the bus to get photos, and the amount of walking involved is not worth mentioning.

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Finally, I got out of Cusco.

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The city of Machu-Picchu existed for 130 years. It was abandoned for an unknown reason in 1530, 2 years before the Spaniards arrived at Peru. This may be one of the reasons that the conquistadores never found out about it, and it remained for centuries hidden in the mountains, completely intact, a perfect example to how the people lived in the Inca times.

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Despite its undenyable beauty, I would not recommend the Inca Trail for my grandmother. It was probably the most difficult trek that I did during this travel, though I am not sure how much of the difficulty was due to objective conditions, and how much - due to my poor state during most of it.

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