About a hundred meters away, I could see little figures running about. The dim light of the 4:30AM morning prevented me from seeing much else. As I got closer, I saw a couple people carrying the instantly recognizable red Llama Path duffel bags. Once I got to Regocijo Plaza, I handed my Llama Path duffel bag to one of the porters. In return, I was handed a hot cup of water to warm up my freezing body. 

One by one, the fifteen of us tourists slowly piled onto the bus, at the back of which already sat the 21 porters and 1 chef who would be with us. The bus was cold, but most of us sought to catch some additional sleep during the 2 hours' drive to Ollayataytambo. There, we had breakfast (the coffee is highly not recommended as it looked more like sludge than anything; go for the coca tea). Afterwards, it was another hour to kilometer 82 (2720 meters above sea level), where we each got our sleeping bags to pack into our duffel bags.

The Sacred Valley of the Incas is a collection of cities that are home to various Inca ruins. It is located in the Andes, within the Cuzco region. For 35 soles, I was up and ready in a Sacred Valley tour bus at 8:30 in the morning. With no heat on the bus and the temperature in the 30's, we were all basically relying on our collective body heat to warm up the bus.

We drove for a couple hours outside of Cuzco to the Inca town of Pisac, where we had to purchase a ticket to enter the various Sacred Valley sites. A partial ticket cost 70 soles, allowing entrance to four (Moray, Pisac, Chinchero, and Ollantaytambo) of the Sacred Valley sites.