We were picked up from Cusco, the belly button or center of the Inca world. We each had an allowance of a five kg kit bag, to be carried by the porters stuffed with sleeping bag and a few changes of clothes. I also took a back pack with about seven kg of stuff that I thought I would need including I-pod, plastic mac, firstaid kit, energy bars and perhaps the most valuable of comodities on the trail - toilet paper. The Inca trail starts after a day visiting some other important Inca ruins, including Sacsayhuaman which overlooks Cusco itself and a night in a small village near the first Inca trail check point. We have to show our tickets and passports as tourism on the Inca trail is controlled to help preserve them. Our guide,
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