My Inca Trail Survival Kit

I did the Inca Trail a couple of weeks ago. The views are amazing and I really loved the experience. I truly recommend to do it.

Here is my survival kit. I hope by writing this to make you enjoy double the whole experience.

• Flashlight: you need one for two reasons: there is no light at the camps (so you need it to go to the toilet) and there is no light on the trail. If you hit the road at night, you are going to need it.
• Two small bottles of water: drink small quantities of water. And don't drop the bottles! (see next tip). You can buy this two bottles on the first day of the trail. Local people sell them along the way.
• Water purification pills: at the end of the second day, the fresh water is over :). You can use some facilities to extract water and use this pills. You have to wait two hours before you can drink the water.
  
• Baby tissues: Imagine yourself walking three days in a row, sweating, with no showers. You arrive to the camp, and you really going to love to clean yourself with tissues.
  
• Three t-shirts: cusco and surroundings are really humid places. If you hang a dry t-shirt inside your tent, it's going to be wet by the morning. All the sweaty t-shirts must be used during the day, because you walk so hard that your body heat compensates the humidity. Try to keep your things dry!
  
• Two pants: try to use the first one as long as you can. You can use the fresh one on the fourth day on Machu Picchu.
  
• Medium/Small backpack: The smaller the backpack, the better. The perfect backpack is really small, but with the belt on the waist, so you can distribute the weight in different points of you body.
• Plastic bags: As I said before, the place is really humid. All your clothes must be wrap up with bags. Everything must be in a bag. You can carry an extra set of bags, in case you want to use them to isolate your shoes from your socks.
• Sleeping bag: The smaller, the better. Try to use a mountain sleeping bag. You are going to sleep 3900meters over the sea with really cold weather.
• Walking stick: the path is really irregular. Goes up and down all the time. Sometimes you need the stick to equilibrate yourself. If you slide sideways, you're going to end up 2000meter below.
  
• Poncho: Buy the best poncho on Cusco. I bought one for u$10, that saved my hole trip. It was really big, so I could cover my backpack and myself with it.
• Sunscreen: The sun is really strong. If it is cloudy, use it anyway. (60factor). I used 30 because I wanted to get a sun-tan :) ...(shallow ... right?)
  

I wish you the best time!! it is unbelieveable!
Enjoy it!