I've just completed another of my life-long ambitions - to walk the Camino del Inca, the ancient stone paved road up through the Andes mountains to the Lost City of the Incas and it feels so good to have finally achieved this dream! ... on Wednesday, we left Casa Azul at 6.30am, weighed down with assorted duffle bags, tents, sleeping bags, mattresses, backpacks and daypacks and walked down the many stairs to where our transort awaited us. On the way out of Cusco we stopped to pick up Andrea, the other member of our private trek, and then collect our two porters and Jesus our cook. Perhaps 'Chef' would be a better title for him, because of the great meals he managed to create for us on two tiny gas stoves, often under trying circumstances. We
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