The Inca trail to Machu Picchu

The Inca trail is a 4 days trek between mountains and rainforest to access to the Macchu Picchu.
It's impossible to do it on your own and mandatory to book it many weeks before with an authorized travel agency from Cuzco.
Inconvenients : very touristic, nothing to do with an Indiana Jones adventures and obviously very expensive (500 US$)
Advantage : a whole team of porters and guides dedicated to carry your stuff, make the tent and food...yes a kind of luxury trek. Even like that it has nothing to do with an easy walk and it's quite challenging indeed, going up and down to 4200m, and unluckily in our case facing even strong tropical rains.
Yet it's an amazing experience with awesome landscapes, and the final part with the Macchu Picchu in sight makes you value even more the efforts to get there.

So I did it in a group of 14 people including of course many gringos, but also a french guy living in New Zealand with whom I shared the tent , other 2 Indian girls from NZ as well, very friendly, 2 Dutch girls (one of them got very sick and almost abandoned), nice people indeed and I had a good time with all of them.
I'm proud to say that I was always leading the path and actually surprised myself with my physical condition!
We has good weather on the first and easy day, a little rain on the second (the hardest one), and a complete deluge in the second half of the third day, and the first part in the mist...quite a shame since it wa the nicest part of the trek going down in the jungle on a very beautiful valley...so we were really afraid to arrive to Macchu Picchu and seing nothing (which actually happens very often, because this site is very close to the amazonian forest, and it can rain a lot or be very cloudy even in the dry season which was our case).
So what did we see ? take a look at the pics and....enjoy !