Memory Lane Monday: Monkey Island

On the 26th January 2010 I wrote in my diary that “today was one of the most amazing days we´ve had so far!!” We had already conquered the Inca Trail and explored the amazon forest so what constitued writing such a big statement? We had just visited monkey island.

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Memory Lane Monday: Inca trail inspiration

As part the Peru chapter of our 8 month adventure around the world in 2010 Becky and I had signed up to hike the Inca Trail for 4 days ending up in the one and only Machu Picchu. This is my journal entry from those four days… with slight modifications! One thing I realised as I read through this post before publishing is how many exclamation marks I used and I worried about my integrity as a writer but then I decided not to change it as I thought the inca trail really is something to exclaim over! So here goes, exclamations and all:

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