On video: the rescue of the Israeli travelers in Peru (photo: Magnus and Passportcard)
Michal Kamai remains the only Israeli in the dangerous area in Peru, after dozens of Israeli travelers were rescued from it at the weekend.
"I heard that it was published in Israel that I sprained my leg, but that's not true. I was sick. Even very sick," explained Lavala Kamai, 23 years old from Moshav Beit Nehemiah, once a fighter instructor in the paratrooper brigade and a medic by training.
"I wasn't able to walk for ten minutes, so certainly not the four hours they said it would take," she says.
"I stayed at the hotel, and a doctor and a nurse came to me and gave me medication. It didn't work for me. They simply don't have a lab there, so you can't do tests properly. It's a kind of trial and error."
According to her, she was told that there would be no Mosk rescue because of the fog in the area.
"I had already resigned myself to the fact that I was staying, then around four in the afternoon they came and informed me that there was one train that would leave, and I had to decide now because in the next four days no more train would leave.
"The train actually took us to a point where the tracks were taken apart and the track was broken. From there we had to walk to where vehicles could pick up the passengers. They said it would be a ten minute walk - it was more like half an hour, but it wasn't four hours.
"Most of the people on the train were tourists, we hardly saw any locals," she says. "Most were adults, grandparents, with suitcases.
not simple.
Really poor.
It's like walking on a train track and carrying the suitcases and bags on your back and shoulders."
Michal Kamai (photo: courtesy of those photographed)
Kamai was left alone since the morning when the travelers were rescued.
"Obviously, there are some concerns, but there isn't that much of a choice. Obviously, it would have been easier if I hadn't been sick," she adds, explaining that she is traveling alone, without partners.
"There were locals who worked as security guards and also volunteers who came to help us from that stage when the train could no longer continue traveling. From the train to Cusco I was accompanied by a local woman named Evelyn who helped me carry the bag until we arrived at the hospital in Cusco. Then from there they transferred me to another clinic where they had a private room For me, and here they have more or less everything, they did a scan and blood tests."
She left Israel at the end of June, since then she traveled to Argentina and Bolivia, among others.
According to her, she does not intend to return at this stage but intends to leave Peru, and return to her after the winds calm down.
"I have to say that I didn't really see any riots here," she notes, "once they burned a tire. We saw pictures that people sent on their phones. But that's it."
"I have to say a good word to the local agent of the Israeli travelers, Yvette, who took care of everything for us in the village and for insurance at all, and also Tovia from the Magen company, which is the rescue company they work with, who took care of me and were on the line with me the whole way, also in terms of emergency medical care. Also the Israeli ambassador In Peru and also Tomer, the consul in Lima, who was always in touch. Many people supported me, including friends from Israel, who asked and gave attitude, so it helped.
"In the end, everything passes, I'm quite surprised by myself," she says with a rolling laugh, "but along the way there were many tears, I won't lie.
Obviously my parents are a little worried.
For them it's not an easy situation mainly because I've been traveling alone for the last month, so there are challenges that surprise you that weren't there before, and that you didn't expect to happen to you - like getting stuck in some hole at the foot of Machu Picchu.
I didn't think something like this would happen to me.
Sometimes it's hard to stay strong when you're alone."
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