Each morning we have an early wake-up with a cup of hot tea or coffee and a basin of warm washing water brought to each tent. We pack up our personal belongings as the camp crew breaks camp, and we eat a hot breakfast, usually eggs, pancakes, or oatmeal. We're ready to head out on the trail. In almost no time, the camp staff and porters pass us by, some on the way to our picnic lunch spot, others to set up the next camp. The morning walk lasts about three or four hours, then we stop for a leisurely lunch of an hour or more at a scenic spot on the trail.
Lunch is usually a meat or vegetable salad, along with a cream, drinks.
Before dinner, there's free time to read, relax, or wash hair or clothes in a stream if we're near one. Dinner is a mixture of continental, Peruvian, and Quechua cuisines. After dinner, we usually chat away the evening in the dining tent, perhaps enjoying a glass of pisco, rum, or wine. We meet with all the staff that will escort us . We cross the bridge to cross the Panticalla pass leading to the jungle settlement of Amaybamba.