Jenine Raymond, a 39-year-old school teacher from Blaxland, was holidaying at Peru’s famed Incan ruins at Machu Picchu when torrential rain and mud slides stranded up to 2500 travellers.

After seven days of anguish, Ms Kerr received a phone call from her daughter in the early hours of the morning last Friday with news of her rescue.

“It was a real relief to hear from her,” Ms Kerr said.

“I’ve never been so pleased.”

Ms Raymond was a part of a group of 29 tourists travelling with Victorian-based Intrepid Travel.

Ms Kerr first heard that her daughter was trapped in the mud slides the previous Friday, after receiving an SMS from her about the rising flood waters.

“I was mortified when I first heard the news,” Ms Kerr said.

“When Jenine was told to evacuate, they told them to run, run, up the mountain. It was dark and wet at the time.

“Then she was told to ring her loved ones. I suppose they didn’t think they were going to make it. She was so worried.

“For three days all she had to eat was biscuits and all she had to protect herself from the rain was a plastic poncho.”

Ms Raymond was airlifted out by Peruvian authorities, who used 12 helicopters and 40 pilots over four days to evacuate all the travellers trapped near the site, Latin American’s top tourist destination.

“She was lucky to get out. When she went back to get her bag from the hotel she had been staying in, the wall had gone,” Ms Kerr said.

Ms Raymond is currently in Argentina and is keen to continue on with the rest of her holiday.

Mother and daughter will be reunited in March when they meet in Amsterdam for a leg of the journey.

Meanwhile, the heavy flooding in southern Peru has killed 20 and left at least five missing, Peru’s Civil Defence force said earlier this week.