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THINGS TO DO
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The Wonder that is...Machu Picchu!!
(Jan 30 '07)
Hello again!! Believe it or not, I am still alive and almost well! I am kind of sick right now, the Incan Revenge has been replaced with a lovely head cold. I don't think Peru liked me very much. This ...
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Cusco is a nice town. I view it as the Sante Fe of Peru because of its cultural history and also for its artistic atmosphere.
I arrived on the day of the Festival of ...
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The Inca Trail - Day 3
(Dec 02 '07)
"Every step was painful, but being a Fidge, he sucked it up and soldiered on"
Day 3 - The Knee Destroyer
After what seemed like the coldest night on earth, and after only having three hours sleep ...
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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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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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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
(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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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 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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