This YouTube travel vlog (uploaded May 25, 2017) follows Nate and Kara Buchanan on day three of a multi-day trek en route to Machu Picchu with Mountain Lodges of Peru. The couple begin at a lodge, visit a nearby village where local children in traditional dress greet them, then undertake an approximately eight-hour hike through green valleys populated by llamas and alpacas. The footage documents changing weather (sun, fog, rain), a summit lunch (picnic/feast prepared by their chef), and arrival at a new lodge; the video emphasizes cultural encounters, scenic landscapes, and travel comforts provided by Mountain Lodges of Peru.
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Day three ("Today is day three en route to Machu Picchu").
About eight hours (repeated references: "we have an eight hour hike ahead of us"; "We're about two hours into an eight hour hike").
About two hours in ("We're about two hours into an eight hour hike. Now both of my boots are soaked.").
Almost four hours ("We've been hiking for almost four hours.").
Mountain Lodges of Peru ("en route to Machu Picchu with Mountain Lodges of Peru").
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Hola. Buenas tardes.
Today is day three en route to Machu Picchu with Mountain Lodges of Peru.
If you remember, yesterday we bought some one hundred percent chocolate from the market. I'm so excited. And this morning, the chef was nice enough to prepare it into this hot chocolate with spices. It is so delicious. It's like breakfast dessert.
If we've learned one thing over the past two nights, it's that Mountain Lodges of Peru knows how to do mountain Lodges the bed again. Tonight was super comfortable. Foot warmers, the private hot tub. It's a great way to do the trek to Machu Picchu.
And we've been enjoying our hot drinks, watching the llamas and alpaca frolic in the field in front of us. Just awesome.
It's another beautiful day. We are hoping that the weather holds up like this and it doesn't pour on us like it did yesterday. But either way, I'm sure it'll be a great day. Today is going to be our biggest day yet we have an eight hour hike ahead of us.
We are starting our hike from this local village that was near our lodge. As soon as we pulled up, all of these kids came running to greet everyone. It was so cute.
This boy is for example wearing like traditional clothes. Even the pants. Pants is made at home.
By Mom.
Oh.
Thank you.
That's so cute.
Ian.
Adios. Ciao.
Ciao.
I love them. I can knock it over. How cute and sweet. Those kids are apparently the trail that we're taking today is the same trail that the kids take to school. Some of them walk an hour they were wearing their cute little outfits. One of them was holding firewood. He was probably four. And we just got to sit there and talk to him for a minute. I seriously got emotional at just how precious they were.
It was such a good start to the hike. Probably like the thing that struck me most is last night. All the people that worked in the hotel were wearing their traditional dress. And they were telling us that they let them wear that instead of, like a uniform in the hotel.
Yeah, but it kind of felt like they were doing it just like to set an ambiance for the tourists and just to make it feel a certain way. But not at all, every single person we've seen in this community, every kid going to school, has been wearing the very fancy traditional dress with the hat.
And the colorful shawl. So cool.
Morning's off. To a good start.
What'd you get, mama ayama for my christmas. Tree north benefit.
Tried to cross a creek and get a shot of the llamas fell in with both feet. We're about two hours into an eight hour hike. Now both of my boots are soaked.
We walked straight up this valley. It is so magical. The stream is flowing down the whole thing. There's animals grazing the whole way. The weather is perfect. It's been a great hike.
As we were taking a break at the top of the valley. The clouds rolled in and now we're hiking through the fog.
We had a good three hours without the rain, but we just had to pull out the ponchos.
It's the top of the pass. Started raining pretty substantially. So we pulled out the GoPro.
We're almost there. Air's getting really thin up here. We've been hiking for almost four hours.
And lunch is waiting on the other side in a tent by about to summit.
I can almost smell it.
Yes. Yes, Yes.
Made it.
Woohoo. Yeah, it is. Yee haw. Nate and I have started a tradition of eating a snickers bar at the summits of our hikes. We don't have one of those, but we do have some of the world's finest chocolate from Ecuador. It's called Picari Cheers. Cheers. As soon as we got to the summit I was about to strip down my tank top. Then the wind picked up and the rain is coming back. And now I have all my layers on. We can hardly see we're eating lunch. It's about forty minutes. That way. That way. Under some tents. And I think there might be warm soup.
Hot soup. I feel like this is a dream.
Lunch was delicious. They said we were going to be having a picnic. That was more like a feast. Our chef started the hike about thirty minutes before us. So lunch was ready when we got here. I ate every last bite. Now we have about a two hour hike down the mountain to where the van will pick us up. It's still raining a little bit, though.
Buenas tardes.
We're almost back.
Dominus Dominos.
We just made it to our new lodge.
This is beautiful. Today's hike was so good. It was a long day, but totally worth it.
Eight hours of hiking.
I don't even think I can count how many llamas we saw today. It was insane like there was constantly a llama in sight somewhere we were just hiking through.
Like these luscious green valleys filled with streams and llamas.
It was so good, but everyone is so tired. Everybody was yawning on the bus. Ride to our lodge. We're gonna sleep really well tonight.
Also, I think it's important to note for anybody who is thinking about booking a trip with mountain lodges of Peru. There are two options. Every day there are some people that did zero hiking. Today we just chose to punish ourselves, but we recommended it was a lot of fun.
