It seemed like an age ago that we booked our Machu Piccu trip back in England, and I remember that once we had booked up, it just seemed so far away. But, all of a sudden, it was upon us, and we were now in Cusco, the awesome Peruvian city where we was to meet for our Inca trail trek. We arrived in Cusco 4 days before the trip started. This was mainly to acclimatise to the area as Cusco is a whopping 3500 metres above sea level, and oxygen up here is somewhat elusive to say the least. We wanted to take every precaution necessary to avoid altitude sickness, as this trip was the one definite thing we had planned throughout South America, and wasn’t something we wanted to miss due to illness. So, for
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