Ollytaytambo to Cusco - 16th to 21st Jan 2018
This post should have been an account of the trials and tribulations of a 4 day hike through the Andes on the Inca Trail, coupled with amazing descriptions of the mystical Machu Picchu - and the fulfillment of a dream of mine for 20+ years. Instead it will tell a very different story. An adventure, for sure, but nothing close to what I had planned, or ever imagined might happen.... I had a bad night, coughing a lot, and preventing both me, and Dee, from sleeping much. But the fun really started for me in the early hours, when I got up to go to the loo. Dee has been in and out of the bathroom all night with tummy trouble, and when I erupted at 4am, it became a revolving door between us. (If you are at all squeamish, stop reading NOW. It's about to get a lot worse...) Diarrhea like I have never known before. My bottom turned into a fountain - albeit not a very pretty one. The amount of water gushing out of me was simultaneously unbelievabl...