Porter!

Our 4 day mountainous trek would not have been so enjoyable without our 20 porters, ranging from ages 22 to 65.  They each carry a 25kg bag full of camping equipment and food and basically run up the mountain in order to set up EVERYTHING before you arrive. We even got agua caliente the first night to wash ourselves after a hot day of hiking. 

The typical porter day starts before ours and ends after ours. We got a cheery buenos dias wake up call served with hot tea every morning. While we're busy eating a scrumptious breakfast made by our chef, Benie and our sous-chef, Pablo, the porters are busy taking the camp apart and packing our bags.  A good ways into our hike, we would hear quick footsteps behind us. "Porter!" someone would yell and we would all stand off mountainside and watch these tiny men with giant packs run past us. 

I need to talk more about Benie and Pablo. These two chefs were AMAZING. one night, Benie made 4 desserts in 2 hours and another night he made us a checkered cake!  He said the cake only took him 40 minutes. It takes me 40 min just to find and read the recipe online. Everything they made was exactly what we wanted after hours of hiking. 

Solpayki, porters!