We had a four-hour walk down a beautiful steep valley this morning, quickly moving below tree line and into cloud forest. Our lunch spot is also our campsite for the night, right in the middle of a village. There are two other trekking groups here with us. It's not as nice as last night's campsite. With a few hours free, the guides, cooks and horsemen had a lively soccer game. Brook got in on the action for a short time.
We learned from Guido that the group we paid for this trek, Uncover Latin America, contracts its mountain trips out to another company named Tucano Reps. Apparently this is done by very many of the tourist agencies operating in Peru, but never advertised. This middleman situation is what created the strange duffel and sleeping pad issue for us the day before our trip. In Cusco we had tried to work directly with the outfitter that would be taking us, to be sure we knew exactly what level of service we would be getting for our money. We failed at this, having been misled by the Trip Advisor reviewers of Uncover Latin America. Oh well.
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