Quiet day

Picture of Peggy and her husband, Steven

At 8am just after breakfast, Peggy lead a meditation on focussing our intent for the trek to Machu Picchu. This was at the same time that Donna Bernadina would be burning the despacho offering from yesterday. Burning the offering energies the intents and blessings with fire. The other despacho offering would be buried to give it a long life.

Then at 10am we had a short meeting to discuss the trek and what it would be like and what we needed to take. Spent most of the afternoon buying stuff - rain ponco, water bottle,bandana, rent a sleeping bag - it can get down to freezing point and below during the night up on the mountains, but warm and sunny during the day - so need a mixture of clothing and gear.

After the descriptions from previous treks and the energy of the group, feel really up for it. The first day will be 2 hours trekking, next day 4 hours, then the big one - 8 hours solid. The trek route is not the tourist one called the Inca trail, but a little used one called the Lares route. We may be the only ones using the route.