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THINGS TO DO
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Four days of....
(Mar 01 '07)
Time for our trek to Machu Picchu.....
Hard to write something original here (not that the rest of this blog is covering unexplored pastures!), as it must be one of the most popular gringo trips in ...
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We are off to the The Sacred Valley of the Incas for 3 days. We are not sure if we will have internet access. Sorry we are a bit behind on the postings, we have a ...
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The Inca Trail and Machu Picchu
(Oct 27 '06)
27th October, 5.20am we board the bus for Km82 and the start of the Inca Trail. In between cat naps we see the Andes rise around us as we travel for 2 hours to the village of Ollantaytambo for ...
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The Inca Trail
(Apr 26 '06)
So our journey began at kilometre 82 of the Inca trail just outside of Ollantaytambo. Our hike began at around 7:30AM because we had 15km to cover on the first day...that meant approximately 7 hours ...
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The Inca Trail - Day 2
(Dec 01 '07)
"It is literally 2 hours of high altitude hell, with seemingly never ending steps rising over 1200 metres"
Day 2 - the Bloody Stairs of the Dead Woman´s Pass
After another restless night, we were up ...
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The creator god
(Apr 25 '06)
Some of the pictures from my last entry were actually taken en route to Ollantaytambo but I've got a few more from Pisaq to include here. The sacred valley is absolutely mesmerizing in every sense of ...
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Lares Trek
(Oct 25 '07)
* Because all of the permits to hike the Inca Trail had been used when I booked the trip in August, I had to sign up for an alternate trek, called the Lares Trek. It was a three day, three night, ...
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The Lost City
(Nov 04 '06)
Machu Picchu has to be one of the most amazing sights in South America. The site was only "discovered" in 1911 (by American Hiram Bingham) and not a lot is known about its purpose in Inca times (it ...
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The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
(Sep 01 '06)
After talking the talk it was finally time to walk the walk. Our fellow trekkers where a friendly bunch of Brits, Americans and Canadians and thankfully not hardcore "I´ll race you to the top" ...
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The Inca Trail Part III - Machu Picchu
(Dec 03 '07)
I MADE IT! I REALLY MADE IT! It’s still hard to believe that I actually completed the Inca trail. I don’t actually think that I have the words to describe this feeling of pride and gratefulness. One ...
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